You can add text form fields that will permit freeform comments.

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"BettyS" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a form that has boxes that a person can put a check
mark. After they put the check mark they need to add a comment, but in
order
to activate the box to allow a check mark I have to protect the sheet.
When
I protect the sheet you cannot add comments to the sheet. The form is in
a
table format.