[TriLUG] OO.org track changes feature

Andrew Perrin clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Wed Feb 21 14:49:53 EST 2007


Well, yes, that's what I'm using (the track changes feature). But what I 
would like is a display of track changes similar to the one Word 2003 
gives (see picture at http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/word2003.jpg) 
instead of the one OO seems to use, at least by default 
(http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/oo2.jpg).

Thanks-
Andy

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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
New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl



On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, J.C. Jones wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 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
>> New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl
>> 
>> 
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