Assign, Target Milestone "Future"

Rainer

Reassigned to Bettina.

Please try using the latest OpenOffice 1.1 Final , you can download it
from www.openoffice.org
many bug fixes and enhancements since your version and 1.1 Final . If
the problem still happend in 1.1 please report back

*** Issue 20438 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

*** Issue 22283 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Don't forget to enhance the import of Word documents when fixing this
issue. See the closed issue
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=22283

Confirmed: when text is selected, to get the note inserted, the text gets deleted.

*** Issue 25965 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

*** Issue 38156 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

*** Issue 55801 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Not to pile on, but if you type a note without newlines, it doesn't wrap in the
notes UI and continues off to the right indefinitely and makes it very difficult
to read.  However, if you do manually put in new lines, they show up as squares
in MS word comment UI.

This issue has multiple parts:
1. Add note to a range of text.
2. Use margin for notes.

Should these parts be separated into two issues?

Summary: "Notes feature needs improvment" --> "Notes for range of text; Track
notes in margin" for easier searching

Issue 9661 is similar to part #2 here: use margin to track changes.

I teach a university writing course, and the only thing keeping me from having
my students use OOo Writer for their assignments is that I cannot select text
and comment on it directly with Writer's Notes feature. This is a showstopper
for me, which is unfortunate. I teach 50 students each semester in a required
course at a university with 27,000 students. I would like to use Writer, but I
simply cannot with the current state of the collaboration features.

:-(( In four years (jun 2002 when it was opened till now - end of May 2006) this feature has not received 
any attention!!! Despite that versions have changed from 1.1 to 2.0.2!!! A range of characters still cannot 
be assigned a note and a MS Word 'comment' is still not visible in OOo.

*** Issue 67744 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

The notes in Calc are much more usable than the notes in Writer.  How about
using that mechanism for a short-term improvement?

I agree that it's really irritating that this issue hasn't been improved yet.
I've posted this on a related thread but I'll post it here to -so apologies to
anyone who's inconvenienced by reading the same remarks. It's just that this
issue is particularly important to me.
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I have to agree that the Writer editing tools need an overhaul. They were the
thing that most made me reluctant to ditch word and, while I finally decided to
put up with them, I really would like to see them improved.

To begin with, the method for accepting/rejecting changes on a case by case
basis is really cumbersome when compared with Word. That box that opens up with
the changes listed by time is, so far as I can see, utterly pointless. Why use
that, when it is simply better to scroll through the document?

Secondly, the insert comments feature just doesnt cut the mustard -there also
appear to be problems with comment visibility if the document is then opened in
Word. I do a lot of proof-reading work and 99.9% of my clients use Word - I need
the integration to be seemless because otherwise it looks woefully
unprofessional. When I insert a comment, I don't want a little box in the text
-I want it in the margin. Also, when I select a comment to apply to a peice of
text, I don't want the original text to be invisible when my client opens it in
Word (which has just happened).

Finally, I think that the text crossing out feature when you delete text may
have its uses but most of the time it simply makes the document hard to navigate
and requires me to do a second pass with the changes turned off. This allows me
to do a final edit but it takes for ever to delete anything this way.

Overall, I think OOo is excellent and I don't want to be so negative -but text
reviewing tools are very important to me (and to many others I'm sure) -and I
don't want to be yearning for Word anymore.

Thanks,

David

assigned to mod

Work on a new implementation of notes in the right margin has started. Notes for
a range of text is also planned, but not supported by ODF 1.1, so this will take
a little longer.

Just correcting some flags in this issue.

*** Issue 12846 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Hi all!

I am one of the team members working on the new notes concept.

This issue contains many ideas which we cannot implement all at the same time
(due to technical reasons).

So I'm starting splitting this issue and other in sub tasks we can start to work on.

Of course, due to the number of CCs and votes, this issue remains open and will
be used as parent task! :)

About the concept of "Displaying notes in the margin" see issue 78578.

Sun introduced a new annotation feature for ODF 1.2, it is now possible to
attach a note to a range of text and not only to a single position.

Therefore we can implement this feature now in OOo. As the timeframe for 2.4 is
too short, I am setting this to 3.0

To make things clear, Sun suggested to introduce this new feature to the ODF TC,
which was accepted by their members.

I'm writing "Notes2" to make this issue appear in a query.

*** Issue 90549 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Another reason why this is important is that when a .DOC file is opened, any comments that spanned a 
range of text are instead "converted" to only be positioned at the end of the text span. Therefore when the 
document is saved back out to DOC format (or even ODF), that information is lost. This creates a major 
compatibility problem if exchanging files with others using Microsoft Word (which is a lot of people), since 
the file returned to them "broke" the annotations. 

Has any progress been made on this feature? I was hoping it would be in 3.0 but
it doesn't seem to be present in rc3. The "comments on the right" feature is
there of course, and looks great, but you still can't comment on a range of text
as you can in MS Word.

This is pretty much the only remaining barrier to my team switching to OpenOffice.

Thanks,
Colin

Ditto on that last comment. This is the last remaining issue for adoption by my team and other teams I 
work with as well. 

*** Issue 95435 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Bookmark refactoring that we need for this feature won't be finished in time -> 3.2.

*** Issue 95993 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

noone actively working on this currently and bookmark refactoring not done yet,
so I believe this will not make it into 3.2

Now that blocking issue solved (94949), any plan for this in OOo 3.3?

Will this enhancement "Notes for range of text" come in 3.3?

I notice that OOo 3.1.1 is already allows Bookmarking a 
range. Perhaps the same programming mechanism can be 
applied to Note.

For those who use comment/note, OOo not yet truly capable 
of handling Word DOC.

Hopefully this issue can be resolve soon. Thanks! :-)

I notice that OOo 3.1.1 already allows Bookmarking a 
range. Perhaps the same programming mechanism can be 
applied to Note.

For those who use comment/note, OOo not yet truly capable 
of handling Word DOC.

Hopefully this issue can be resolve soon. Thanks! :-)

Count me on the list of people who'd like to see this feature be compatible with
Word.   Sounds like it would be super-easy to implement.  Thanks for
re-considering.   

@jeffintexas and others, (if you have not) please click "Vote for 
this issue" so that it gets the attention that we want.

Comments for text ranges are available in AOO 4.1.