 I am George Cao and this is a short video to show you how to add a note or comment to a Google spreadsheet so that it makes the spreadsheet easier to manage. So why why do we add a note or comment? So basically for example here in this spreadsheet you can see that most of the rows are are you know nicely manageable but then there's here there's one row that has a really long content which just makes it hard to scroll you know so this should either be a note or a comment so what's the difference between a note and a comment here's the difference if you are just working on the spreadsheet for yourself if you're not going to be collaborating if it's just for yourself then add a note but if you're going to be collaborating with other people it's better to add a comment it's not recommended to add both to the same cell because it'll kind of mess it up but you will see I'll show you so for example here let's say this was just my own spreadsheet nobody else needed to to see this or nobody else was going to be collaborating on it then I would just I'm just going to move this over a little bit I'm just going to take this cut that okay and see now suddenly it's much easier to manage that row it's not so it's not it's not super long like it was before right right super tall okay so I'm just going to cut this out and to add a note you simply right click oh and those of you who use a Macintosh Mac computer right click is basically hold down the control key on your keyboard and then click okay and then when you right click or hold down control and then click there's this thing here called insert note you click on that oh after you right click when you click insert note you should take off the control key just left click on insert note that's kind of confusing I know but again right click or control click and then once you've done that let the control key go if you're on a Mac or if you're on a Windows then scroll down here and just left click the insert note and then you could paste in the I'm pasting the thing that used to be there and so now you can see that this black triangle pops up which shows that there's a note there and for people to see the note for you to see the note you simply move your mouse over that cell and then notice there and then you can click on the note and you can make edits to the note or you know add more to it etc okay and if you have a note there it's usually good to to to double click the main cell and type c note okay now if you're collaborating with other people though okay I'm just going to show you a different example let's say you're collaborating with someone else it's better to insert a comment instead of a note so let's say I wanted to insert a comment and I'll show you what comment looks like a note looks like this right nobody knows who wrote it okay nobody knows who wrote it and it's a black triangle a comment has an orange triangle and you can tell who wrote it by moving your mouse over here ah Rafael wrote this and even there's even a time stamp um and then you can then click see more and to to show the full comment if I click resolve it'll disappear that comment into the archive so I don't want to do that I want to keep it here and the nice thing is um I can uh you know you know okay I'm not going to do this right now because I'm not logged in so he won't know that it's me he'll say anonymous but the nice thing about comments is you can have a conversation let me show you what I mean so um let's say I'm just going to insert a comment in this in this one to insert a comment right click or control click and then um scroll down and click on insert comment and I'm not logged into my google um drive account that's why it says anonymous if I were logged in it'll say my name and picture but uh testing comments um click comment and you can see here time stamp the comment itself the comment can be long right as you can see as you as you saw here the comment can be long and it'll it'll say show more but the nice thing about comments again is people can collaborate with you so or I can collaborate with myself to see when I wrote the comment um uh testing comment second comment okay and as you can see now there's a thread a conversation thread within that cell that people can see when they just hover over this testing comments testing second comment if I wanted to delete a comment I simply click on here and then I click either edit or delete to delete this particular comment so I hope that's helpful um have fun google spreadsheets again only do either a note or comment in a single cell don't don't try to do both it'll it'll it'll it doesn't work very well um so have fun and uh see you in the next video