Excel users have a couple of different ways to add notes to Excel charts, with some automatic and some requiring a slight workaround to get your notes in place. Open Microsoft Excel.

While Microsoft Excel's comments and notes tools both let you annotate a cell, they serve different purposes, work in diverse ways, and vary in how they look on a printed Excel worksheet.

4. Right-click the New Group line to rename it and (if you wish) add an icon. In this case, we’re renaming it Track Changes. (Excel will add the term “(Custom)” after the name, only in this ...