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
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 96474 ***
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).
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.