Indicator for table comments, like Calc

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Indicator for table comments, like Calc

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Hi everyone
I created a table and inserted comments in some cells, is it possible to enable the red box that indicates that comments exist?
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Comments will show a triangle with a callout to the margin where is located the comment.
Don't ou mix it up with Calc comments?
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Hagar Delest wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 9:12 pm Comments will show a triangle with a callout to the margin where is located the comment.
Don't ou mix it up with Calc comments?
the comments on writer are visible or not, is there a way to hide them but have the calc triangle?
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I don't think so.
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Hagar Delest wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 9:18 pm I don't think so.
sin therefore only or visible all or nothing
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donnje wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 9:18 pm sin therefore only or visible all or nothing
Sorry but I don't understand what you mean. My English maybe.
Have you tried the feature to see by yourself? There is a menu View > Comments to show/hide them.
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donnje wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 9:14 pm ... the comments on writer are visible or not, is there a way to hide them but have the calc triangle?
Comments anchored to text portions in cells of a text table are treated the same way as comments anchored anywhere else.
If the visibility of comments is disabled via the >View menu, comments are treated like bookmarks: You can select them in the navigator.
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donnje wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 9:14 pm
the comments on writer are visible or not, is there a way to hide them but have the calc triangle?
Not that I know. I leave them on all the time. If /View /Comments is turned off they are not shown, but the start of the comment text is shown in Navigator, and one can move to the anchor location by double clicking the Navigator entry for a comment.
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RoryOF wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 9:34 pm
donnje wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 9:14 pm
the comments on writer are visible or not, is there a way to hide them but have the calc triangle?
Not that I know. I leave them on all the time. If /View /Comments is turned off they are not shown, but the start of the comment text is shown in Navigator, and one can move to the anchor location by double clicking the Navigator entry for a comment.
thanks shown in Navigator is very useful
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You could add your own character to mark the positions when comments are hidden, a ▲would affect the position of the other text - if that matters you could use a zero width space which will show as a thin grey line if view/field shadings are on and be hidden if not.

▲s can be toggled as hidden or shown if a character style is applied to them and the style's character hidden property is toggled.

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Or you could color or highlight the character nearest the comment anchor to show there's a comment there.
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I commence comments with a keyword, such as Revise, Check, Source... so that I can use navigator to move swiftly to a relevant comment.
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