Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: comments are disappearing

Hi :)

I guess the detailed answer is to ask which operating system you are using; 
Windows, Linux (such as Ubuntu, Edubuntu, Mint, Salix ...), BSD or Mac?  


For Windows probably the best program is WinRar
http://www.win-rar.com/download.html
WinRar is available for Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
although most OSes (except Windows) probably have something built-in already.

Most of the linux distros tend to have an archive reader built-in that can read 
zip format but knowing which distro would help us find the name of the archive 
manager/reader.

Please see Lyudmil's answer at the bottom of this thread.
Regards from
Tom :)






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From: lnvas <lnvas@data.bg>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 25 February, 2011 9:30:18
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: comments are disappearing

Andy <convenientparking@gmail.com> wrote (02/24/2011 issue 157_2886):

> I've been using LibreOffice for a couple months now to grade student's papers,
> to which I append ample comments. I've just discovered that when I save the
> document in Microsoft 2007 format and then open it up again, all the comments
> I've written disappear.
> ...
> Is there any way to retrieve them? Is that
> information still contained somewhere within the file?
> ...

Hi,

File format descriptor (first 2 bytes) of *.docx files is PK, i.e. zip format.
Use some un-zipper (7-zip, WinRAR, ...) to extract the document tree structure.
The document contents itself is in "\word\document.xml",
and the comments are in "\docProps\core.xml".
(Use Notepad or similar, search "description".
XML-Notepad couldn't help, for me at least.)

Regards,

Lyudmil

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