Just a personal thought that at least would appear to do what is wanted: apply a highlight color to the selected text. Then click in the middle of the selected text and add the comment.
--Dan On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 00:57 +0000, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I am never quite sure what people mean by "comments" as the term seems to be > used differently > in different places. > > Can you select an area of text and then > Format - Character > and then use one of those tabs to add something like alternate text or > something? I think i > am going completely the wrong direction for what is required. > Apols and regards from > Tom :) > > --- On Sat, 12/11/11, Stephen Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Stephen Anderson <[email protected]> > Subject: LibreOffice 3.4.4 (Writer) - make comment refer to selected text > rather than cursor > point > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, 12 November, 2011, 16:12 > > Hi Tom,I've asked the following question a couple of times at the LibreOffice > user support > mailing list, but no response so far. It sounds like you may possibly have > some idea. > - Thanks. Steve A. > > =====* I would like to insert a comment that refers to some text that I have > selected (a > phrase or sentence), rather than a single cursor point. > * I tried selecting the desired text, then clicking Insert/ Comment (or > Ctrl-Alt-C), but > the resulting comment points to the beginning point of the selected text, > rather than the > whole thing. > * Is there any way to do this? I looked at the documentation and FAQ but > can't see anything. > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
