# \[LH3583\] : Stranded Comment Highlighting

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/lh3583-stranded-comment-highlighting/45357>\
**Category:** Windows Beta (Archived)\
**Created:** [April 28, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/lh3583-stranded-comment-highlighting/45357 "2019-04-28T18:45:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![SewWrite](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@SewWrite](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/SewWrite)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/lh3583-stranded-comment-highlighting/45357/1 "2019-04-28T18:45:48Z")

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I have actually bumped into this a few times. Basically what happens is that the manuscript highlight for a comment is split in half which makes it hard to remove the linked comment.

1. Highlighted several lines of text and created a comment.

2. I wanted to change the text in my manuscript but had trouble moving the cursor into the correct location of the highlighted text so I used the arrow keys to get into the middle of the text so I could change it (I wanted to leave my comment at this point)

3. I deleted some of the words and changed others. As soon as I put a space in, the text that was highlighted by the comment was split in two parts. i didn’t think to much about it and typed away.

4. After I was done, I had one comment but two “comment” highlights. Since I addressed the issue of the comment, I deleted the comment that removed the first highlighting. But left the second highlight intact.

5. If I hover over the second highlighted field, the original comment is displayed in a popup. If I go to another display on the inspector and go back to the comment display the comment again shows up. But I couldn’t delete it.

I was finally able to remove the second highlighting but it didn’t really remove the second orphaned comment. I did this by adding a second comment over the top of the first one and when I deleted the second comment the highlight in my manuscript finally went away. BUT if I add a new comment to any of this same text, the original comment magically reappears.

 ![1-capture.PNG](https://dev.literatureandlatte.com/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0ed95bb03ab11818b868b198add8b3e245c119fe.png)  
 ![2-Insert new comment, ghost comment appears.PNG](https://dev.literatureandlatte.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e432337072da4a09d32aad562d55ed7166c291c7.png)  
 ![3-delete new comment.PNG](https://dev.literatureandlatte.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c41fb9a4127609af4086451f02ee657a6765271f.png)

☹ I’m going to try to delete the affected text and retype it to see if I can clean up the error.

Maybe you could fix this but by allowing the comment link text to be edited and by allowing a space in that edit. .

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**Author:** ![thePhilosoraptor](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/9e8a1a/32.png) [@thePhilosoraptor](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thePhilosoraptor)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/lh3583-stranded-comment-highlighting/45357/2 "2019-04-30T18:56:31Z")

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This has been filed. You are correct, spaces should not break the comment into sections.

Thanks!