<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_REOPENED " title="REOPENED - Can't delete my own comments in a track changes docx after closing/reopening Writer" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105485#c8">Comment # 8</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_REOPENED " title="REOPENED - Can't delete my own comments in a track changes docx after closing/reopening Writer" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105485">bug 105485</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:fiendishx@gmail.com" title="fiendishx@gmail.com">fiendishx@gmail.com</a> <pre>(In reply to fiendishx from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=105485#c7">comment #7</a>) > (In reply to fiendishx from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=105485#c6">comment #6</a>) > > (In reply to Buovjaga from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=105485#c5">comment #5</a>) > > > Ah, this is a DOC/X limitation: > > > <a href="https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_other/i">https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_other/i</a>- > > > 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?</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>