Michele wrote: > 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
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