Michele wrote:
> 2008/8/15 H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> So, OOo 3.0 is up for release in a month or so. I was wondering if
>> anybody has been reviewing it as its betas are released. I am most
>> interested to know progress on the following.
>
> Hello HS, you can download and test the latest beta yourself. It will
> not interfere with version 2.4.1 (or whatever version you have
> installed now). It is always very useful to have as many people as
> possible to test the beta versions in order to discover bugs.
>
> As far as I know:
>> 1. Comments and tracking changes.
> I do not think there has been any change compared to version 2.4.1 in this
> area
You mean the comments are not shown in colored boxes in the margins in
the new version? In the current stable version, the comments are
indicated by a small yellow box which is easy to miss!
>> 2. Making index at the end of a document.
> Can you clarify what you mean?
Index of words that appears at the end of a book usually. Readers can
refer to that index to find out, for example, where a certain word
occurs in the text.
>> 3. Mode similar to the outline mode in MS Office.
> If similar is all you need then you should consider the navigator. It
> is not as polished as the MS Office OUtline view but it has all the
> same functionalities. Hit F5 make the navigator window as big and
> select the Headings category. You can promote, demote, move up and
> down each heading and select how many levels to view.
That seems great. I will give it a try. However, you say it is not as
polished as MS Word. Can you point the main difference in this regard?
>> Is there anyplace I can find screenshots of most recent version of OOo
>> 3.0 beta x demonstating these features?
>
> For a summary of the major enhancements introduced in OOo 3.0 you
> should read the article on www.oooninja.com/ (I would like to give you
> the full link, but my ISP is having a DNS nightmare and I can only
> connect to a few sites :-(
I think I looked at this. That is where I had seen the comments in
colored boxes in the margins of the document. I was more interested in
the screenshots of the most current version of the development branch
though. But as you say, I might as well try it myself. I might give this
a shot in a day or two.
One other query. Is there any work on a grammar checker in OOo? I know
many people think this is not necessary since the authors should know
the grammar to begin with. However, such a tool is very useful to find
inadvertent and silly mistakes many of which involve usage of a
different word with similar spelling ('there' in place 'their' for
example) due to typos. Moreover, it is better to bring an author's
attention, specially students writing reports, to questionable grammar
to let them decide than to give no indication at all.
Thanks,
->HS
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