Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 16251
note insertion feature: box & font too small, text should wrap
Last modified: 2010-10-23 15:21:10 UTC
As a copy editor I work on converted Word docs and I use the "insert note" feature a lot. My Word-bound clients see these as comments. My notes can be up to 100 words, but average about 50. I hate having to scroll around in that tiny box to re-read and edit my comments. How about: - making the dialogue box bigger - increasing the font size - having the text wrap Thanks to OpenOffice, I'm almost Microsoft-free. Yayeeee!
SBA: Reassigned to Bettina from the User Experience team for consideration.
I experience the same problem (running 1.1.2 on Mandrake 10) of no text wrap in the note box. I would say this is more of a "bug" than an needed "enhancement", as it makes it very cumbersome to work with notes. Even though it's a small thing, it's the kind of thing that would really bug the hell out of a former Word user and thus puts potential users off. It seems like it would be a quick and easy fix to simply enable text wrap in the existing control. Could it please be fixed? Thanks!
*** Issue 52125 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
In bug 52125 (duplicate of this bug), the comment was made that this would not be handled as a defect as it should match the display tip and hardreturns can be inserted with Enter. I would like to appeal that decision as from the point of view of someone who works with a lot of notes (in both Word and OOo), it IS a defect. Several reasons why: 1. If the original author didn't insert hard returns throughout his/her note to match the box width, then other users have to scroll sideways to read the note, which is extremely frustrating. Documents created in MS Word won't have hard returns inserted for legibility because MS Word has word wrap in its note box. That means that any notes originally created in MS Word documents will be very hard to read in OOo2. I work with a LOT of documents in a work-flow situation, and I can't express how frustrating this is. None of my collegues would switch to OOo for this very reason alone. 2. Even if the original user creates the document in OOo and does put hard returns in the note, if the note is saved as DOC format, those hard returns are stripped. Which means that for anyone else reading the document, the note is one big line again. Of course we could just save it in Open Document format--but since many people use MS Word, many folks are forced to use the DOC format if their documents are to be compatible. 3. Viewing the note with the tooltip has several limitations/problems: a. On a very long note, the tooltip will truncate the note, so you have to click on the note to read the rest of it. b. If two (or more) notes are side by side, the tooltip will only display the first one. The only way to see any of the others is to click on the first note, and then press the arrow key to get to the others. Since the only way to read them is in the Note window, not having word-wrap means again scrolling back and forth to read a very long line. Could this please be fixed for the next release? Thanks. And thanks for all the hard work on such a great open-source program!
assigned to mod
There is going to be a new notes implementation with notes visible in the right margin. This issue therefore is not needed anymore, as the box with associated tooltip will then no longer exist.
Closed
Created attachment 72451