Continuing the discussion from Tracking comments via a formula: I have a table, which has a canvas column, in which people can highlight text and use the in-built commenting function. I’d like to use a formula or filter to surface which rows have comments, how many, who has commented, etc.

I have a similar need. I’m using conditional formatting for card view on a kanban board to color code any card that goes untouched for a few days. Unfortunately, Modified() does not pick up comments. So it would be great to track number of comments on a card/row and add that to my formula to show that work is being reflected via comments.

Psst: [image] MEGA TRICK: Extract Comments into a table! (again) Tips and Hacks Extracting doc comments into a regular table that one can sort through has been a pretty common request since circa 2020. It’s 2026 already and there’s still neither an API nor a formula to access those document comments. A while ago I made an attempt at creating a solution for this. However, the way it worked back then was extremely cumbersome and hacky. It would require you to share your doc with me, and then my server would read its raw binary data, decode it, and extract comments from that.…

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