Can LibreOffice add a “TK” flagging mechanism?

I’m a longtime Open/LibreOffice user and a journalist. One of the quirks of my world is the use of “TK” or “TKTK” in a body of writing to indicate that something missing is “to come.” This is used to flag sources to be cited, information yet outstanding, or really about anything in the draft of something that will be filed. Reporters and editors use this shorthand to move quickly through the review of a document and as a reminder of work ahead. There are word processing interfaces that flag TK by automatically changing its text’s color or populating “TK” outside the margin of a document.

Is there any way that this could be done in LibreOffice, either by a user like me, or by the brain trust that manages its code (that’s way above my pay grade)? It would be greatly appreciated — a quick visual survey is faster than searching for TK in the document and sometimes in my world every second matters.

I don’t think that I’m the only one who would welcome this, and forgive me if this has been addressed — the forum search rejected TK and TKTK as search terms. Thanks so much,
J. Matt

Interesting, I want to be clear why a comment is not useful for this?

It is quite clear and visual, and you can use the browser to find them quickly.

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For .odt it would be a more modern choice, but depending on your workflow other options are still valid. For example I have no clue what will arrive if I copy a text into email and the receiver forwards it to some old interface “we use this for 30 years” collecting texts.
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So if I would need this I’d use the suggestion by @ajlittoz for an autotext. (For my own documents I simply use @@

If a comment as proposed by @elmau is not your choice (it is my favourite), create an AutoText entry named TK consisting of any sentinel of your choice (e.g. TK or TKTK) upon which a specific character style is applied. Use a custom character style, not direct formatting as a character style will give you more versatility (possibility to change the look of all TK flags simultaneously and others).

How to use the AutoText entry? Type TK and immediately press F3 to make the transformation.

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