Excel 2000 and PowerPoint 2000 cannot create inline discussions

When you create discussions in Microsoft Excel 2000 or in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, you do not have the choice of creating a discussion at a marked location within the document.

This is by design in both cases.

To work around this issue, use the following procedures.

In Excel 2000

When you post your discussion, put the sheet and/or cell reference into the text of the discussion.

In PowerPoint 2000

Use one of the following methods:

• Open the document as the author, and add notes to the Notes pane.
• When you post your discussion, put the slide number into the text of the discussion.

For more information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

You do not have the choice of creating a discussion at a marked location within Excel 2000 worksheets or PowerPoint 2000 slides, because the structure of Excel 2000 allows for hundreds of worksheets in a workbook, and several thousand cells for each worksheet. Because of the complexity of the Excel 2000 design, Office discussions cannot apply to each worksheet or cell in a given workbook.

PowerPoint 2000 also has the ability to create several slides in any given presentation. Office discussions cannot apply to each slide in a presentation.