Comments acting odd

[srmorgan]

This is an oddball question but:
I find in opening some but not all files, the comments are all visible when they should have been hidden and then when I try to hide them that option is not on the list of commands.
All it offers me is edit or delete. As I said this is happening, on most but not all files.
Is there an option that I might have checked or unchecked accidentally?
It is really annoying to open a file and see a column full of cells with open comments that can't be hidden.

Any ideas would be welcome

Thank you to all

SRM

 

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