Can't help with OO but from my experience with Word, comments !== changes. This may affect some of the suggested work-arounds.
Think in-band vs. out of band. Changes are edits to the document content that modify it. Change tracking allows you to see a before and after view to tell what changed. When you print, the content has changed somehow, whether or not you print the pre-modification view. Comments are like margin notes, they don't change the content at all. If you print supressing the comments, the document content is unchanged. So a work-around based on comparing before and after may not work, unless there is a feature to allow comments (not changes) that can be suppressed for output. If such a feature does exist in OO but without the capability Kevin requested to view such comments, it seems like it's only half done. Ergo I suspect it doesn't exist - if it does then perhaps the feature Kevin desires does also, we just haven't found it yet. Incidentally, this is very germane to the recent discussion comparing proprietary software to open-source. This particular functionality is significant in enterprise environments. If it is not present, or is half-baked, it is a deficiency that is a competitive disadvantage for the open-source package. If the functionality exists but is difficult to find, that learning curve problem (!ease-of-use) is a competitive disadvantage. -Bruce McCulley ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 21:31:31 -0500 >From: "Ted Roche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: looking for Word 2000 "Review Toolbar" equivalent in OpenOffice >To: "'Kevin D. Clark'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Kevin: > >I dug through OOoSwitch >(http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalogpricelists/ooo501.htm), as well as its >shareware cousin, "Taming Open Office" >(http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/ftp/tow1-1.pdf) and couldn't find a >suggested replacement. Most of the functionality seems to be available, but >it's not as smooth as the Reviewing Toolbar. I wonder If you could develop >one based on customizing a toolbar. > >There's "almost as good" options, of course. File | Versions will let you >see different versions if they have been explicitly saved, but it is not >enabled by default. And for those fans following along, the 'Track Changes' >equivalent is this: OO.o supports Word's markup scheme for revisions: Edit | >Changes | Show, or Record. The 'Record' option has to be selected before >that changes are made. I've swapped a number of documents with Word users >and the tracking is accurate. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin D. Clark >Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 4:28 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: looking for Word 2000 "Review Toolbar" equivalent in OpenOffice > > > >In Word 2000 if I navigate thusly: > > Edit -> Toolbars -> Reviewing > >I get a toolbar that allows me to see a reviewer's comments on a >document. > >Is there equivalent functionality in OpenOffice 1.1? I checked but >nothing obvious presented itself. > >Note: this functionality is different than the "track changes" >feature. I know about this. I guess that I'm asking about something >else. BTW, I have confirmed that "show changes" in OpenOffice doesn't >show me the reviewer's changes. > >Thanks for your help, > >--kevin >-- >Kevin D. Clark / Cetacean Networks / Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) >cetaceannetworks.com!kclark (GnuPG ID: B280F24E) >alumni.unh.edu!kdc > >_______________________________________________ >gnhlug-discuss mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > > >_______________________________________________ >gnhlug-discuss mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
