Hello again, Sorry I ready a bit too quickly your point 1.
>>> 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! Track changes has not changed, but yes, notes are indeed now displayed on the side of the page. > > >>> 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. Alphabetical indexes already exist Insert > Indexes and Tables > Indexes and Tables I am not sure if something was improved in this area or not. > >>> 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? MS Word allows you for example to see the text as it is formatted, to see also the body text level or at least a few lines of it has a nicer interface with one button for each level and so on... as much as I like and support OpenOffice.org, in this particular area MS Office is really a lot ahead. Interestingly, the Outline View is one of the most requested features (180 votes) as well as one of the oldest request for enhancement, created in 2002. If you are interested here's the link with some comments from the developers: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3959 [snip] > 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. I have seen a grammar checker in Pavel's build but I haven't tried it and I am not sure if it covers the English language. If you want to try Pavel's build rather than the official Sun build here's where you can find the most recent version: http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/OOO300/OOO300_m2/Build-1/ Cheers, Michele > > Thanks, > ->HS > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
