Bug 62622 - Cannot format part of hyperlinks in comments and text boxes
Summary: Cannot format part of hyperlinks in comments and text boxes
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Depends on:
Blocks: Textbox Writer-Comments Hyperlink
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Reported: 2013-03-22 06:08 UTC by David
Modified: 2025-08-02 03:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
The document described in the bug report (17.23 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2013-03-22 06:09 UTC, David
Details

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Description David 2013-03-22 06:08:25 UTC
In the attached document, I am unable to select the word  "test1"  (by itself)  nor for the word  "test2"  (by itself)  in order to change the formatting of either   (the font size, or color, for example).

"test1" resides within a textbox, and "test2" resides within a "note."
Comment 1 David 2013-03-22 06:09:32 UTC
Created attachment 76892 [details]
The document described in the bug report
Comment 2 bfoman (inactive) 2013-06-25 09:48:29 UTC
Confirmed with:
LO 4.2.0.0.alfa0
Build ID: 2013-06-24 own debug build 
Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit

Could not change it neither.
Comment 3 David 2014-02-24 03:29:20 UTC
Are there any other details that you need me to provide, in order to help with forming a solution to this bug?
Comment 4 Joel Madero 2015-05-02 15:41:03 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2015-06-20 11:10:59 UTC
Confirmed.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 5.1.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 3ecef8cedb215e49237a11607197edc91639bfcd
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-merge-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-06-19_23:16:58
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI)
Comment 6 Luke Kendall 2015-11-30 05:31:52 UTC Comment hidden (off-topic)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2017-01-03 19:35:17 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 David 2017-01-09 03:30:50 UTC
Confirmed: bug still present.

Version: 5.2.3.3 (x64)
Windows 10
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2018-08-22 02:35:49 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 David 2018-09-24 05:24:18 UTC
Confirmed that bug is still present in...

Version: 6.1.1.2 (x64)
Build ID: 5d19a1bfa650b796764388cd8b33a5af1f5baa1b
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3; UI render: default; 
Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: group threaded
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2019-09-25 03:01:12 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 QA Administrators 2021-09-25 03:39:44 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 13 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-08-02 13:12:43 UTC
(In reply to Luke Kendall from comment #6)
> I can confirm that font changes for hyperlinks are not preserved when you
> save and re-open a document in LO 5.0.3.  But also that if you clear direct
> formatting, and then change the paragraph as you wish, you can make your
> changes persist.  So at least the bug has a relatively simple workaround.
> Which is important, when you have to make a font style or size change to
> make a piece of formatting work (or text fit), on occasion.

Marking this as "off-topic" as this here bug report talks about hyperlinks in text boxes and comments (see David's attachment 76892 [details]).
Clearing direct formatting in those removes the hyperlinks.

Reproduced for both text box and comment in OOo 3.3, so marking as inherited.

Still reproduced in:

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 47ca3f1f762352b488d58b3bf23d5776576f1cca
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 14 QA Administrators 2025-08-02 03:12:45 UTC
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