Bug 170192 - Allow for searching in comments in Writer
Summary: Allow for searching in comments in Writer
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
26.8.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard: target:26.8.0
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Reported: 2026-01-01 12:58 UTC by dolezvo1
Modified: 2026-01-15 07:03 UTC (History)
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Description dolezvo1 2026-01-01 12:58:33 UTC
Description:
It would be helpful to provide a way to search the comments/annotations in Writer

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a comment with some text
2. Try for part of the comment's contents, either with Ctrl+F ("Find bar") or Alt+9 ("Find tab")

Actual Results:
The text will not be found, with no option to enable searching in comments

Expected Results:
Either to search in comments by default, or at least to a way to enable it in the search options


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
None
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2026-01-01 22:49:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 96474 ***
Comment 2 dolezvo1 2026-01-04 08:53:39 UTC
Not a duplicate of the linked request. The other request is asking for a different functionality (searching *only* within comments) for a different search window (Find & Replace).
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2026-01-15 07:02:31 UTC
Vojtěch Doležal committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/1158ed2a118faa69d25f647c69089e1fb60b78b1

tdf#170192 - Allow for Comment and RegExp search from QuickFindPanel

It will be available in 26.8.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.