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Feedback on OO4 Beta: Writer > Comment

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Feedback on OO4 Beta

In Writer, the command Insert - Comment or the Command+Option +C key combination inserts a comment anchor at the current cursor position. A comment box is shown at the page margin, where you can enter the text of your comment. A line connects anchor and comment box. This line does NOT show
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The line is actually there, but is very faint (perhaps only one pixel wide?)
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In the Windows version the line is quite evident.
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It's nearly invisible for me also, and worse, the default (author) color is an off-yellow that's even harder to see over the white page background.
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As of 30 August 2013 a fix is in progress. Hopefully this will be included in the coming revision of AOO
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Rory: Do you have a bug number for this? I've tried twice now to find one, with no success.
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Please, edit this topic's initial post and add "[Solved]" to the subject line if your problem has been solved.
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Thanks!

I was searching for 'note' or 'comment' in the description; I have no idea why that wasn't coming up in the results.
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It looks as if the Bugzilla index hasn't been updated. A few searches were unsuccessful.
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I searched news group gmane.comp.apache.openoffice.issues which is very fast and always up to date.
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Hi,

Does somebody still have problems with comments in .docx files?
I do. Please, look at:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=34716
My post » Mon Dec 30, 2013 3:51 pm

Thank you!
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