Bug 48897 - VIEWING: word 2003 comments enumerated: numbers not displayed
Summary: VIEWING: word 2003 comments enumerated: numbers not displayed
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.4.0 release
Hardware: Other All
: low enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: BSA
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Blocks: MSO-XML2003
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Reported: 2012-04-18 15:20 UTC by Uwe Brauer
Modified: 2021-01-09 17:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Attachments
RTF document created with MS Word, enumerated comments (5.24 KB, application/rtf)
2012-04-27 07:25 UTC, Uwe Brauer
Details
pdf version of the attached rtf file (9.51 KB, application/pdf)
2012-04-27 07:26 UTC, Uwe Brauer
Details
doc (2003) version of the attached RTF file (22.50 KB, application/msword)
2012-04-27 07:27 UTC, Uwe Brauer
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Comment compared MSO and LO (169.36 KB, image/png)
2020-10-22 10:06 UTC, Timur
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Description Uwe Brauer 2012-04-18 15:20:36 UTC
Problem description: 
The following problem occurs in  3.4 Linux and Windows.
I generate a documents in word 2003, which contains comments. These comments are numbered. I save the file in RTF or in doc (2003) format. I open the files in 
writer, I can 
see the text and the comments but the comments are not longer numbered.
I attach 3 files:
comment.rtf
comment.doc
comment.pdf

   
Current behavior:
numbers are not displayed
Expected behavior:
numbers should be displayed

Platform (if different from the browser): 
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7

and windows xp
Comment 1 bfoman (inactive) 2012-04-27 02:48:29 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 2 Uwe Brauer 2012-04-27 07:25:42 UTC
Created attachment 60678 [details]
RTF document created with MS Word, enumerated comments
Comment 3 Uwe Brauer 2012-04-27 07:26:21 UTC
Created attachment 60679 [details]
pdf version of the attached rtf file
Comment 4 Uwe Brauer 2012-04-27 07:27:07 UTC
Created attachment 60680 [details]
doc (2003) version of the attached RTF file
Comment 5 bfoman (inactive) 2012-06-29 02:09:23 UTC
Confirmed with:
LO 3.5.4.2 
Build ID: own W7 debug build
Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit

Comments are not numbered in both attached files and newly created file. Seems like comments in Writer are not numbered anyway.
Comment 6 Joel Madero 2012-09-11 20:16:54 UTC
This is going down as an enhancement request. I have verified that it's the case but it's not really a bug, LibO works as intended, but this may make it better. I'm going to mark as NEW and prioritize as such.

Enhancement - Not a bug but instead an addition that would make LibO work like Microsoft Office in enumerating comments

Priority - Low, don't think this will add much functionality to LibO, some users will benefit slightly, probably not many.


Thanks for reporting, we'll see if we can get this taken care of
Comment 7 Uwe Brauer 2012-09-12 21:47:33 UTC
Thanks for your comments. However I disagree with the low priority you want to assign this request.

Having enumerated comments help very much to *locate* a comment.

Like in the email exchange:

comment 3 is very useful
comment 5 is nonsense.

without having a numbering it is not clear how to refer to these comments.
Actually I had to use MS word in order to finish the task!

Since I cannot contribute with code I can only ask you to re consider the priority.
Comment 8 Joel Madero 2012-09-12 22:29:30 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Caolán McNamara 2012-09-12 23:05:19 UTC
SwSidebarWin::CheckMetaText is probably the place to look at. It doesn't appear that the numbers shown are part of the file formats, just merely the count of previous comments by that author.

So... SwSidebarWin::CheckMetaText could use its mrMgr member to get the count of sidebarwindows previous to the current one that share the same Author as itself and add an extra widget that displays that count into the window, following e.g. the mpMetadataAuthor or mpMetadataDate examples.
Comment 10 Uwe Brauer 2012-09-13 09:05:20 UTC
Hi all

First of all thank you for this polite answer.


Two remarks:

As I see from Caolán McNamara remark, enumerated comments might  not  be part 
of the ODF or the OOXML specification,  do I understand that  correctly?

There are two issues:

        1. Libre Office displays enumerated comments (produced by word)
 
        2. Libre office generate comments, which can be enumerated 
        (at least optionality).

I thought that maybe 2 is easier.


Regards

Uwe
Comment 11 A (Andy) 2015-04-04 08:22:45 UTC
Reproducible with LO 4.4.1.2, Win 8.1
If you open the files with MSO it adds a number.  LO doesn't add a numbering.

I think this could be a nice further comment enhancement.  If you think of a document with a page with many comments from you and you work together with somebody else and you want to tell him/her to take a look at a specific comment then you could say please look at number xx.
Comment 12 Timur 2020-10-22 10:06:05 UTC
Created attachment 166620 [details]
Comment compared MSO and LO

Repro Lo 7.1+.
When bug was reported, it compared to older Word behavior.
From Word 2013, comment numbers (like: "Commented [Initials1]") do not display in the Comments window (bubbles) anymore, they display only when you look at the print preview (at File | Print) or when you print the document. To have comment numbers in Print Layout view, one has to use a macro and run it each time. 
Microsoft has a habit of “simplifying” its Office interfaces, and the numbers do change with context (if you remove Comment 2, Comment 3 will be labelled Comment 2, etc.). Some users still find it useful to have numbers in comment balloons.
Workaround in Word is to change the style of the comment balloons in order to add a number. But with a manual return within the comment, each new sentence within that comment gets numbered.
Workaround not possible in LO, maybe with bug 103064.
Comment 13 andrzejsn44 2021-01-09 17:38:47 UTC
Hi,

I have the same problem. I work for public administration and in the law-making process. Creating comments and referencing to them by a number, e.g. during online calls, is a daily activity, especially that a lot of people use Microsoft Word.

Is it difficult or time consuming to write an appropriate macro which could insert an appropriate ordinal number for each comment, and, in the case of changing number of comments, delete previous numbers to allow insert new ones? Of course, a dynamic, automatically updating numbering would be better, but maybe the first way is easier? - I don't know cause I'm not a programmer.

Kind regards Andrzej