Richard van Laak
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Thank you for your input! We’ve added this to our backlog as something we want to implement. There are many items on the backlog, so we can’t set an exact estimated time for this, but we’ll keep you posted with status updates.
Thanks!
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@david
> [...] the only way to do so is with a new API.
Wouldn't it be possible to make OOXML changes to the word/settings.xml file directly?
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Thanks for your feedback. We’re currently reviewing this idea. We’ll keep you posted with any updates.
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Office Extensibility TeamAn error occurred while saving the comment Richard van Laak commented
As the latest update was of November 2016, is there any update on improved support for adding comments?
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Ron, thanks for your suggestions. We’re currently reviewing these ideas. We’ll keep you posted with updates.
Also, please note that we do have an API to get the OOXML of a range. Check out dev.office.com for more info.
Thanks!
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Without being able to "change tracking", making changes to OOXML does mark every change as a revision as well. In other words, without this API the following scenario can be seen as bug
Scenario
- open document, enable track changes
- select text, and run code that puts a comment on text without changing the actual text (e.g. using scriptlab via a method that writes the OOXML)
- text that itself has not been changed is seen as revision
Also see https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js/issues/329#event-2022338233