Calc comments fine in edit or view, not in mouse-over

[EarnestAl]

I can understand that you are very focused on the way you have always worked but data validity is going to be more accurate for data entry, easy to see, easy to correct and easily expandable.

In the sample below you can choose the item from a drop down list, I have extended the validity to only row 41 for this sample. One of the sheets includes the item only, the other includes the code and the item name. The Validity sheet can be extended but you need to extend the range in Data > Validity
DataValidity124836.ods (13.6 KB)

[Bondi3880]

G’day Earnest AI
Thanks for that sample. I’ve got the just of what you have shown, but not the how to do it part at the moment. I have to do a lot of reading and experimenting to get Validity to work for me.

PKG
Not sure what I’m looking at in your link. Are you saying the squashing problem also happened in v7?. In fact I’ve missed the importance of why you blokes refer to v7 and v24. I assume v7 is quite an old version of LO?

Thanks everyone for your input.
I’ll have to let go my original plan of using Comments. It’s just not going to work in LO.

Ummmm … I feel my original question is still unanswered, with the exception that there has been a bug report created.
How do I close this thread?