diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7703209..c8f2bd4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+1.2.22: March 30, 2008
+ * Made Html_cleaner strip HTML comments, which Open Office adds for styling
+   purposes.
+
 1.2.21: March 30, 2008
  * Made Html_cleaner support many more HTML tags and attributes, so users can
    cut and paste from other programs into Luminotes.
diff --git a/controller/Html_cleaner.py b/controller/Html_cleaner.py
index 6f50412..3c6e5a1 100644
--- a/controller/Html_cleaner.py
+++ b/controller/Html_cleaner.py
@@ -171,8 +171,7 @@ class Html_cleaner(HTMLParser):
       self.result.append( xssescape('&%s' % ref) )
 
   def handle_comment(self, comment):
-    if comment:
-      self.result.append( xssescape("<!--%s-->" % comment) )
+    pass # strip comments
 
   def handle_starttag(self, tag, method, attrs):
     if tag not in self.permitted_tags: