[TriLUG] OO.org track changes feature

[J.C. Jones]

Andrew,

Sounds like you are looking for some sort of version control. Please 
check out this article about version control features in Open Office:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8911

jcj

Andrew Perrin wrote:

> I'm collaborating with colleagues on a project, and ahve been 
> overruled on my preference to use LaTeX in emacs. We'll be using 
> word/OO to swap and track changes.
>
> My question is this: Word has a very nice layout for track changes in 
> which deleted text gets put in the margin in a little "balloon," then 
> a dotted line points to the point in the text where the deletion was 
> made. This makes the text a lot easier to read than the old version -- 
> which seems to be OO's version -- in which the deleted text is 
> redlined but kept within the document.
>
> Is there any way to get a similar view in OO?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - 
> http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
> Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
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