# Add and view comments

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This feature is limited to the Profit and Loss statements.
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To help your team collaborate on financial statements, explain something to another user or ask another user a question, you can add comments against a wide range of values in the statement. 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 certain values.

When you add a comment and/or a link, a purple triangle displays in the top-right corner of the value cell, indicating to other users that there is a comment to view. In most cases, the comment moves with the value as you change your view of the statement, such as add levels or switch to matrix format, as illustrated in the images below.

The comments and links are included when you export the statement.

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## Add a comment or link against a value <a href="#addandviewcommentsinfinancialstatements-addacommentorlinkagainstavalue" id="addandviewcommentsinfinancialstatements-addacommentorlinkagainstavalue"></a>

1. Right-click the value and click **Comments**.
2. Type your comment into the text box and/or use the keyboard shortcut of **CTRL**+**V** to paste in a link you copied from elsewhere.
3. Click **Submit**.

You can edit and delete any comments or links that you add.

## View a comment or link <a href="#addandviewcommentsinfinancialstatements-viewacommentorlink" id="addandviewcommentsinfinancialstatements-viewacommentorlink"></a>

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

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

## Use the Cell Comments panel

The **Cell Comments** panel gives you a consolidated list of all comments on the current view of the statement, making it easy to find and navigate comments at a glance.

Click the **Cell comments** button in the toolbar at the top right of the statement. The panel opens and lists every comment in the current view, showing the row and column identifier, the author, the date, and the comment text.

From there, you can:

* **Go to a comment**: Click any comment in the list to highlight the corresponding cell in the statement.
* **Copy a comment**: Click the comment's menu button and select **Copy** to copy it to your clipboard.
* **Copy all comments**: Click **Copy all comments** at the top of the panel to copy every comment in the current view, including the cell identifier, author, date, and comment text.
* **Delete a comment**: Click the comment's menu button and select **Delete**.

You can resize the panel by dragging its edge. To close it, click the **X** button at the top right corner or click the **Comments** button in the toolbar.


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