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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42743
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42743
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Added due to comments: I use LibreOffice Writer. My comments below reference it, not **OpenOffice** Writer. I believe these were derived from the same original code, but apparently they have diverged since then, at least in regard to handling formatting of comments. Switching to LibreOffice Writer has apparently resolved Galastel's problem.

In **LibreOffice** Writer:

I notice that if you highlight the text of the comment in the box, then the regular Format/Character menu will let you pick different colors for the TEXT, so that would let you choose different colors for different categories of comment.

The documentation says the comment box background color changes for different users. So one way would be to change your user id for each comment; that is possible but seems tedious.

I notice in the Tools/Options menu there are several fields related to Comments, by default the BG color changes by the user commenting. I tried to change mine to White, thinking that would be best if I was just changing the text color, it didn't work. I tried a few things for five minutes but gave up. Perhaps there is a way to assign "white" as the background color for YOUR user id, I did not look up how to do that.

I should think changing the text color would be enough for a handful of categories. Red, Blue, Black, etc. Only problem is you can't search for comments of a certain text color, other than visually, then it seems like a pain to scroll through 300 pages looking for a red comment.

Original score: 1