Bug 118934

Summary:	Comments on footnotes saved in DOCX format are not saved
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	William Friedman <will.friedman>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	79045_79045, jluth, xiscofauli
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	filter:docx
Version:	5.4.7.2 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows (All)
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Attachments:	A simple document you can use to test this bug.

Description William Friedman 2018-07-25 12:36:36 UTC

Description:
If I add comments to a footnote and save the file in DOCX format, when I open the document again in LibreOffice or Word, the comment does not appear.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attached document, or just create a footnote.
2. Add a comment to that footnote.
3. Save in docx format.
4. Close the document and reopen it. The comment on the footnote will not be there.

Actual Results:
The comment on the footnote did not appear.

Expected Results:
The comment on the footnote should have appeared.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:

Comment 1 William Friedman 2018-07-25 12:37:50 UTC

Created attachment 143749 [details]
A simple document you can use to test this bug.

Add a comment to the footnote. Save the document in docx. Close it. Reopen it. The comment won't be there.

Comment 2 Roman Kuznetsov 2018-07-26 19:38:21 UTC

don't repro in 6.1.0.2

Can you try latest fresh version 6.0.5 or latest build of version 6.1?

Comment 3 Xisco Faulí 2018-07-27 11:59:02 UTC

Thank you for reporting the bug.
it seems you're using an old version of LibreOffice.
Could you please try to reproduce it with the latest version of LibreOffice
from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ?
I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to
'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version.

Comment 4 William Friedman 2018-07-27 13:11:18 UTC

Tried the latest fresh version and experienced the same behavior:

Version: 6.0.5.2 (x64)
Build ID: 54c8cbb85f300ac59db32fe8a675ff7683cd5a16
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.1; UI render: default; 
Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: group

Comment 5 Justin L 2018-08-11 15:02:25 UTC

Comment on attachment 143749 [details]
A simple document you can use to test this bug.

In the old version of Word 2003, the option to add a comment to footnote text is disabled. So are comments even allowed in a footnote in docx?

Comment 6 Justin L 2018-08-20 12:55:30 UTC

Also in Word 2010, as soon as you enter into the footnote text, the "new comment" is disabled. Not an available feature for docx format then I assume.