Formatting comments in LO Writer

I am proofreading a document for someone and trying to add comments as guidance. I press Ctrl-Alt-C and enter my text. I find the default text a bit too small. I tried choosing ‘Format all comments’ and selected a larger font. Sometimes this works, sometimes it does nothing, sometimes the cursor jumps to the very beginning of the document, sometimes it stays at the point where I am editing. However, frequently any subsequent comments revert to the small font that I struggle to read. Is there a way to set the comments style and make it remain that way throughout the document?
My experience has been that it is very erratic indeed. I’ve had this issue with 7.1.2 and 7.1.3 which I upgraded to yesterday.

Any ideas, please?

Mark B

Hello,

Is there a way to set the comments style and make it remain that way throughout the document?

There is no comment style and hence you can’t make changes permanent. See also enhancement request: tdf#103064 - Introduce a comment style.

Functionality Format All Comments should apply to all existing comments and if it does not, then such behavior should be considered a bug.

Thanks for the info’ regarding the enhancement request. It seems like a good idea based on other people’s comments. I believe the existing arrangement does indeed constitute a bug.

Having just encountered the same situation, I agree whole-heartedly. "format all comments’ should, indeed, format all comments, at least in the current document. It does not. Using Version: 24.8.2.1 (X86_64) on win10.

File a bug.
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But, if you read the bug-report above, situation now IS different: Styles (not automatic/DF) were introduced with 24.2 and 7.6.3

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How did you try it?


It works for me.


Version: 24.8.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0f794b6e29741098670a3b95d60478a65d05ef13
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE
Calc: CL threaded


From 24.2:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.2/de#Writer


Comments in Writer

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