Is there any way to remove username and date from comments section?

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#10

@melevolence: There are a number of issues in your answer here, some of them triggering the harsh responses. So I try to summarize them here:

  1. Your answer is actually about a different issue, only distantly related to the original question. OP has asked for a feature to save space in comment’s area - and the question didn’t actually require to remove sensitive data from the document, only to collapse the unnecessarily used space where it could be used with more value to OP. It’s even not obvious that OP actually has any sensitive info there - it might happen well that OP doesn’t have personal data filled, and so only has that generic “Unknown author” text with date, which is also not needed in OP’s case. But you are talking about anonymizing document.

  2. You use Answer for what is not an answer on an Ask site - i.e., it doesn’t allow OP to solve the problem. This is not a forum - and it’s meant to have a question and answers each aiming to solve it.

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#11

Then, you mention “This particular feature is one that has been requested repeatedly, has been considered as a bug” - then please don’t forget to reference those things - e.g., when I read your comment, I wanted to look at those. It’s good to never forget to reference anything you mention in your questions/comments.

Any feature request is only suitable on bug tracker. This is peer-to-peer community help site - so your question is targeted on other users, not to developers here.

And actually saying about donations, you yourself make multiple assumptions - e.g. about your donation helps development, while in reality, donations only help to keep LO free (a really great value! - thank you for the donations you made) - but almost never go to developers (only in form of tenders on very specific tasks from time to time). So donations has ~nothing to do with funding some specific work done (and I personally don’t question the usefulness of your issue).

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#18

Is there a feature request on bugzilla ? The search features there are limited and keywords like “hide comment date” yield too many results.

#19

It’s hidden. You report a bug and in the Importance field, select enhancement. Maybe the visibility could be improved. When you decide to file an enhancement request, you should read How to Report Bugs in LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Wiki to help you get along. The bug tracker is seriously difficult to use, be prepared when you start.

#20

Thanks but I was asking if there’s already one. I know how to make an enhancement request on Bugzilla but if this feature has been asked for “almost a decade” as @melevolence says, hopefully someone made one already and I shouldn’t make a duplicate. It’s just that I’m having trouble with Bugzilla’s search features. For example the “summary:” filter seems to return only exact matches, so I can’t just type “summary:comment”.

#21

Aha! Found it
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86887
So let’s +1 this request
And yep, getting close to a decade indeed.

#22

Sorry, I misread your comment.

#24

That bug report is for Writer (which I rarely use, and can’t remember ever using comments in). My experience of it is just in Calc. I wonder if this has always been in Writer, but recently got ‘normalized’ into Calc too.
(It’s not clear which component OP is referring to.)

#12

I also want to second this request. There are at least two scenarios that I encounter. One scenario is that I don’t want my clients to have insight into my workflow, and the other is that we sometimes need to give comments without identifying the person who does the commenting (because we as editors want to speak with one voice). I frequently have to delete all the comments towards the end and then re-insert them to avoid giving away this sort of information, which can mean as much as an hour extra work.

Please, please remove this stupid time stamp and other identifying information. As OP points out, it is also unnecessary clutter.

#13

I am against this information being removed. This information supports the responsibility of the writer.

#14

This is a moral reason. It is bound to be ineffective, since there is no way to distinguish between the cases in which the author has a responsibility to make his editing habits available and those in which it does not. In any case, the right to privacy trumps any such concerns.

#15

Not morally, but legally. I am glad that you have only one voice and you do not decide what is valid or invalid. Your idea of it only pervades in your head.

#30

You are thinking too narrow here. There could be thousands of uses and reasons for putting in comments, and many of these will have nothing to do with legality. Look at the screenshot I posted above. It’s a spreadsheet with Bible references, and the popup notes give the Bible text. Why do I need my name and the date above every Bible reference, since I’m not the author of the New Testament?

#31

@practica
This question is about Writer not Calc!

#32

Fair enough, but some of the comments on here are talking about Calc, which just recently got this new “feature”.

#33

@practica
There is already an error report on this: tdf#156885

#16

I also would like this to be implemented. In universities, we use annotate scripts using LibreOffice, and it would be nice if there is an option to remove the timestamp from the comments.

#17

If the sole reason for suppressing the metadata is more room, the following is one alternative that may help:

  1. Turn on line numbering. Tools > Line numbering > Show numbering. Blank lines - checked. Restart every new page - unchecked.
  2. In the print dialog’s option to print the comments, select “Place at end of page”.

The comments will be on succeeding pages, with line numbers to help you find the place.

Admittedly, not a perfect solution in every case, but good enough in most.

Happy Trails,

Loye W. Young, OP, JD
https://www.texaspreachers.org

#36

I think this is changeable now under
Tools > Options > LibreOffice Calc > Display/Comment authorship
:slightly_smiling_face:

#37

V 24.8.2
The question was tagged “writer”.
For Writer there isn’t such an option.
(My test with Calc didn’t work as expected .)

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