Bug 118934 - Comments on footnotes saved in DOCX format are not saved
Summary: Comments on footnotes saved in DOCX format are not saved
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.4.7.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: filter:docx
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2018-07-25 12:36 UTC by William Friedman
Modified: 2018-08-20 12:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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A simple document you can use to test this bug. (5.73 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2018-07-25 12:37 UTC, William Friedman
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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.