Hi Shaun:
Okay, we didn't explain clear enough before:
Shaun McDonald wrote:
Cherry on top: "Compare Versions" mode would be nice to search-compare
all previous versions of a doc to find which ones most matches the
current one, in effect allowing one to see a "history" of alterations
of a doc. Currently you can't customize a toolbar which allows one to
use elements of the View menu as commands such as turning off and on
the formating toolbar.
You can already compare documents. "Edit" > "Compare Document". I
don't know the ins and outs for usage there should be documentation on
this
What we meant was the additional ability for OOo to rummage through all
your OOo documents on a disk to find those which most match the master
doc you're currently working on or based on a search criteria. Such
would create a kind of "alteration history" mode which allows to you to
trace the changes of a document since its inception.
"tri-save" backup option (master copy, backup copy, and a third bkup
out to iDisk or flash drive.
On the Backup see "Tools" > "Options" > "Load/Save" > "General",
where there is an option for a backup. Also look at "OpenOffice.org"
> "Paths" for the location of the saving.
We meant a third path for backup which the current backup/paths set-up
doesn't offer. In the age of the iDisk and online storage and flash
drives, there is additional comfort in simultaneously not just saving
documents documents on your local disk as a standard backup, but an
off-local backup as well.
Much ado requests for making it much easier for non-techies to do
wildcard searches. Some miss finding spaces before or after paragraph
returns without some techie input how. Can there be a more simple and
less techie method of implementing wildcard searches? How about
extending wildcard search-matches within docs on a disk? Another neat
feature would be to import a plain text document and have the ability
to find a word/paragraph and replace that word/paragraph with the same
word/paragraph plus a paragraph style or character style or ruler
setting. That ability alone would do wonders in easily creating screen
script formatted documents out of plain text documents!
There may well be documentation already on this. In the find/search
dialog, there is a "more options..." button, which you may well find
it has the features that you are looking for.
The options in the search/replace panel are unclear to non-techies of
just how to implement wildcard searches without a manual. A non-techie
customer friendly suggestion is having buttons specifically for
inserting the codes for "soft paragraph returns", "tabs", and "hard
returns", etc into the search window for you to add along with your
search criteria.
OOo Engineers, please keep up the great work!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
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