[TriLUG] OO.org track changes feature

[J.C. Jones]

Andy,

The last windows word I used was 2000. The balloon type and the OO type 
both seemed cluttered to me, but my writings are more simplistic and not 
colabrative..

I will continue to look around for any OO enhancements for you.

jcj

Andrew Perrin wrote:

> 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
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - 
> http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
> Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
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>
>
>
> 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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