# Add and view cell comments

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User permission: Budgets & Forecasts
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To help your team collaborate on budget and forecast values, explain something to another user, or ask another user a question, you can add comments against individual cells in a worksheet. In addition to the text comment, you can add links to websites and documents in a cloud storage folder. For example, you might want to add documentary evidence to your cell data.

When you add a comment and/or a link, a purple triangle displays in the top-right corner of the cell, indicating to other users that there is a comment to view. The comment also gets added to the workbook comment list, which is easily accessible at the top of each worksheet.

If you or other users export the workbook, the cell comments are included in the export.

All the changes you make to the cells in a worksheet tab are also recorded in the [audit log](/budgets-and-forecasts/contributor/review-the-budget-or-forecast/view-the-audit-log.md).

## Add a comment or link against a cell <a href="#addandviewcellcomments-addacommentorlinkagainstacell" id="addandviewcellcomments-addacommentorlinkagainstacell"></a>

1. Either click the cell and click the **Cell** menu > **Open cell comments** or right-click the cell and click **Comments**.
2. Type your comment into the text box and/or use the keyboard shortcut **CTRL**+**V** to paste in a link you copied from elsewhere.
3. Click **Submit**.

You can edit and delete any links that you add.

## View a cell comment or link <a href="#addandviewcellcomments-viewacellcommentorlink" id="addandviewcellcomments-viewacellcommentorlink"></a>

Either hover over the purple triangle to view an excerpt of the comment/link or click the triangle to view the full comment. Click the link to open it in a new browser tab.

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To reply to a comment, click the purple triangle, then type your comment and click **Submit**.

## View all comments in the workbook

Click the **Cell comments** button in the top right toolbar to view the list of all comments on the current worksheet. You can browse the list or use the search box to find a specific comment. You can also select another worksheet tab from the dropdown list to view its comment list. Click a comment in the list to go straight to the corresponding cell in the selected worksheet.&#x20;

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The[ workflow comments ](/budgets-and-forecasts/contributor/use-workflows/view-workflow-comments.md)feature is another way of communicating with the users contributing to the budget or forecast.
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