Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 114239
In a large Writer document, Comment notes are not displayed at file open.
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:15:33 UTC
I have a large Writer document (c. 450kb) which contains five Comment notes. When I open the file, (a) the comment notes are not visible (though the wide grey margin for them is there), and (b) the Navigator reports that there are no Comments in the file. This is so despite the fact that in the "View" menu, "Comments" is checked. If I uncheck and then re-check the "Comments" item in the "View" menu, the Comments become visible, and the Navigator becomes aware of them. But it seems to me they ought to be visible at File / Open, since the View menu item says they are. N.B. I have only tried this in WinXP.
After some experimenting, I have found that the Comment notes do eventually appear, and are registered by the Navigator, but it takes some time before this happens. In the case of my c. 450kb file, the Comments are not accessible for 20-30 seconds after the file is visible on screen. If you open the file and rapidly page down through it, you can get quite a long way before Comments start to appear. In other words, their appearance is not brought on by the action of paging through the document: it just takes time. This probably means the issue is more a nuisance than a really bad bug; but that's up to you guys!
Please attach a sample document
Created attachment 71525 [details] The file in which I first noted the issue
Thanks for the good sample document. I can confirm the problem with OOo 3.2.1, the comments will only be visible when doing "Tools.Update.Fields" or inserting a new comment. But on my system it seems to be fixed in OOo 3.3 milestone OOO330m6. Could you please double-check this on your system? Thanks for supporting us!
I have installed 000330m6 and tried out the same file, but with the same result as with v.3.2.1. At File/Open no Comments were visible, and they were not detected by the Navigator. In fact it took over a minute before the Navigator registered their existence. But I didn't have to do anything for the Navigator to detect them: just wait. Good luck working it out!
Ah, yes. I was confused by the fact, that it is just slightly better than in 3.2.1... After opening the attached document, for a long time only the first two comments were visible in Navigator/Text. Maybe this is related to issue 109351. I also put OD on cc list - maybe this problem is in Writer core, not in "Comments" code.
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