[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 105485] Can' t delete my own comments in a track changes docx after closing/ reopening Writer

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105485

--- Comment #8 from fiendishx at gmail.com ---
(In reply to fiendishx from comment #7)
> (In reply to fiendishx from comment #6)
> > (In reply to Buovjaga from comment #5)
> > > Ah, this is a DOC/X limitation:
> > > https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_other/i-
> > > need-help-restoring-deleted-comments-on-a/15841ce1-bf70-4b42-85e0-
> > > 2ae45574c3fa
> > > 
> > > Word's Track Changes feature doesn't track comments, either as they're added
> > > or as they're deleted. There's nothing in that copy of the document to
> > > restore.
> > 
> > You have misunderstood the bug report. I don't care about tracking the
> > history of comments. I care that in some instances a comment once added
> > cannot be removed.
> 
> Oh you can't edit responses? Oops. Sorry. Let me add...
> 
> At least without going through some entirely non-obvious dance that isn't,
> as you say, required for ODT documents.
> 
> When I say that the "X-ed state isn't being preserved across saves", what I
> mean, though perhaps I wasn't clear, is that I made an effort to remove the
> comment, the application displayed a behavior consistent with at least some
> kind of process toward removal, and then after closing and opening the
> document, my action has obviously not been followed because not only is the
> comment still there but now the X is gone too.

Ugh. I'm so bad at this...

And further, if ODT removes the comment immediately and does not require some
terrible dance of a thousand clicks, could DOCX not also do the same?

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