Unable to format comments in Numbers 3.5.2

I have a 12-page household budget spreadsheet. Next to each page, I have a comment that serves as a financial to-do list for that month. As is the case with to-do lists, it is beneficial to be able to differentiate at a glance the done items from the yet-to-be-done items.

In the previous version of Numbers, I simply would bold the text to do this. I also could have changed the font color, I suppose. But after upgrading to 3.5.2, I am unable to apply any colors or font styles to text in comments. Highlighting the text and trying to hit command-B doesn't work, nor does highlighting text and then opening the colors or fonts windows.

Is there seriously no way to do this? Do these comments really have less flexibility than Stickies?

 

They're not in a spreadsheet cell — I'm able to format text in those.

I'm having problems in the Stickie-like notes that are created by clicking the "comment."

I suppose it's entirely possible I'm misusing the comments. In the previous version of Numbers, I used these in this manner and was able to adjust the text as I saw fit.

I guess maybe in this version I should instead use the "text" (which I can change the text style of, but haven't yet seen how to change the background color of the box) or even "shape" buttons instead. Just seems weird that this is the only text field I've encountered that doesn't allow for styling.