Word comment scope range incorrect when comment spans table cells

[Charu Tevari]

In Word 2003, suppose I have a table with 1 row of 4 cells and I have a
comment spanning cells 2 and 3. Then the range returned by comment.scope is
not the range of cells 2-3 but the range of the entire row.

Can anyone verify this and suggest a workaround? I'm considering duplicating
the the comment and applying it to each cell individually but this is rather
clumsy.

By way of background, this is for an application to construct complex
insurance documents with lots of conditional text. I'm encoding the business
logic for each conditional fragment by in a comment so that the business
rules can be entered by non-programmers. I considered using xml tags but the
last time I looked (about a year ago) the process of changing the schema that
would be needed as the document changed was too clumsy to be useful.

-Charu

 

[Peter Huang [MSFT]]

Hi

I can reproduce the problem. And I have reported the problem to our product
team.
So far as a workaround,
1. you may try to merge the two cells into one
2. try to make two same comments on the two same cells.

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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