[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 118734] New: bookmarks disappear when document closed (after saving)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118734

            Bug ID: 118734
           Summary: bookmarks disappear when document closed (after
                    saving)
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.4.6.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: davelovelace at gmail.com

OK, I have a pretty large document, several in fact, hundreds of pages each, so
I need lots of bookmarks. Several times running, I entered a lot of them. They
are there, and they work. Then I save the document, and when I open it again,
almost all of them are gone.

I think I have identified the circumstance which causes this. I also have lots
of comments. Most of the places I want bookmarks--significant places in my
documents--I have a block of text with a comment attached. To get those, I
selected the block of text, then used ctl-alt-C to pop up a (marginal) comment,
and type in the text.

Well, I want the bookmarks to be there at the beginning of that block of text,
or sometimes at a particular point inside the block. Not a paragraph later (or
twenty paragraphs later, sometimes), after the end of the block. But the
bookmarks that disappear are the ones that are in those positions. Or, it seems
after some testing, anywhere inside the commented block of text.

The bookmarks are there, and I can use them to navigate--until I close and
reopen the document!

It was suggested to me that they might still be there, just hidden. I looked in
the help (and also googled, uselessly), and found the statement that I can
display hidden text this way: "Enable the check mark at View - Hidden
Paragraphs". There is no Hidden Paragraphs under View. I'm pretty sure this is
a red herring, anyway, because the help talks about variables I used to define
the condition for hiding the text, and I didn't do anything like that (and
don't understand the explanation of how to do it, either). Help text doesn't
match the program. though.

I did find, under Tools - Options - Formatting Aids, three check boxes relating
to Hidden Text or Hidden Paragraphs. All of them are now checked, and this
makes no difference that I can see. I think those are a red herring, too.

I think this is a bug in LibreOffice. I'd love to be wrong, and find out that
there's some simple setting I'm missing. I'm trying to be polite, but I've
wasted many, many hours on this--first, in entering and reentering bookmarks,
second on trying to figure out what the problem is. I find it hard to believe
that no one else has observed this, but it seems not. Am I really the only one
who tries to use both bookmarks and comments extensively?

At the moment, I'm editing on a Fedora system, and the About says: Version:
5.4.6.2 Build ID: 5.4.6.2-3.fc27 CPU threads: 1; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render:
default; VCL: gtk2; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group

I move the file back and forth (sneakernet using a flash drive) to a Windows 10
system, also running 5 (and I am pretty sure it's also 5.4). The behavior is
the same on both systems, so it doesn't look like and OS issue.

Thank you.

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