I want to add lines of comment to existing documents. Currently I have tried format/char and so on and for a while it worked a number of times. Two or three. But now every new time I find a place in the document where I want to insert one of my comments I have to reset the whole formatting thing.
I don’t want to use that ‘comment’ feature. That’s not what I’m talking about.
I just want to approach the document with my own text format. Like coming to a document with your own red pen and your own handwriting.
It can be done easy enough: one line at a time. How to have it set up right there at the beginning and hold good all through the doc?
Seems to me it happens to us often enough as a glitch… 
Maybe you want Edit - Track changes - Record?
Give more details about your usual routine. And mention OS name, LO version and save format (doc(x) vs. odt). The latter is very important because many of the potential suggestions will work only in native odt format.
What you request can be easily done with styles: paragraph styles for full comment paragraphs and character styles for partial comments inside paragraphs.
Character styles don’t exist in .doc(x). Consequently, after save+reload, your partial comments will be “standard” direct formatted text.
If you presently don’t use styles and work with direct formatting, whenever you start a new paragraph or line, you inherit the formatting at point of insertion. And, indeed, you must generally reset everything to some “neutral” state in order to impose the new formatting.
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(Sorry. Posts crossed in the air.)
It depends.
In every case use styles, and consider to add them (it) not only to documents one by one, but (also) to the respective templates.
- If your intended insertions are complete paragraphs, define a dedicated paragraph style (named e.g.
paraMyOwnRedPen) with the wanted attributes. Start an insertion by creating an empty new paragraph (withEnter) and assigning the mentioned style to it. This must be the way if your insertion also shall have their own indentation and/or similar paragraph attributes.
Paragraphs also have their default character attributes. No extra character style needed. - If your insertions shall be placed inside existing paragraphs create a character style (
charMyRedPen) for the purpose. Start an insertion creating an additional space (or two or three) in the appropriate position and assigning the mentioned character style to one space selected for overwriting. - If you actually use an alien “file format” omit the bad habit.
Adding an example:
disask93528myRedPenExample.odt (28.8 KB)
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