Libre Office Writer lets me insert comments but you can only see numbers which you then have to click each number to see the comment. I want to be able to see the comments on the right without clikcing on the numbers - how can I do this please? It is an .odg document. Sorry if I am using the wrong tool. I just wanted to leave comments in something that I thought was similar to a Word document, but apparently isn’t. Is there a way to open all the comments at once and convert the document with all the comments open into Word or pdf?
Which LO version are you using? I never had “numbers” to click to see a comment. Are you sure you’re complaining abour LibreOffice, not another suite like OpenOffice or similar?
Comments are “off-main flow” text which are always displayed in some Post_It® lateral frames. Being off-flow, they can’t be automatically sent into the main flow. If you want to convert them into main text, you must do it manually for every comment through copy-&-paste operation.
My 7.3.6.2 version has a collapsible comment column: at top of it, right of the ruler, there is a small triangle labelled Comments on which to click (down-pointing or right-pointing triangle).
LibreOffice 7.3.6.2 is what I am using.
Also it’s a .odg document.
This is a Draw document, containing graphics. In Draw, comments are not attached to any object. They are attributes of the page (slide). And this also implies that an .odg graphical file can’t be converted to a textual .docx document.
Explain your goal. Maybe you went into a wrong track, not choosing the adequate tool.
PS: don’t multiply comments to add an after-thought remark. On this site (which is not a forum), a question, comment or answer can always be edited by clicking on the pencil icon below it. This is more friendly to contributors, not forcing them to read many posts while a single synthetic one is much better.
Comments in Writer
This works on condition that it is saved in ODT format.
There is no guarantee that DOC/X will work.
It could be a compatibility problem between
ODT and DOC / DOCX .
Basically:
Recommendation for a clean work with LibreOffice, if different Office programs are used, or foreign formats ( DOC / DOCX ) are used in LibreOffice.
Old files in foreign formats must be converted in ODF and possibly adapted.
Files created in LibreOffice are to be saved in ODF format (ODT, ODS, etc.).
Always keep these files as source.
If you need other formats to share with partners, you can open an ODF file and use ″Save as…″ (copy) to save it in another format and share it.
This way you always have working files available on your system environment.
See:
Edit different file formats in LibreOffice
Please report the behavior also as an error in Bugzilla .
See also:
How to Report Bugs in LibreOffice .
Please post the link to the bug here.
format: tdf#nnnnnn (use only the number, not the link)
To do this, edit your original question. Thank you very much.