Jay Lozier <[email protected]> wrote: >> The "track changes" thing is far too advanced for most office workers i >> know of. When i tried to get people into it they complained that all the >> red crossings out and different colours was all toooo confusing. > > I have never seen anyone use this feature in MSO (or LO). IMHO most people > find the it confusing or annoying. ...
Yes, but sometimes it is essential. e.g. I worked as an editor for technical papers that Chinese PhD students were going to submit to journals or conferences. Mostly they came to me as latex files, but there were some in .docx. The writer or the journal chose the format. I gave the latex files back as .doc and the .docx as .docx, both with changes shown. Tracking & showing changes was an essential feature for that work. So was adding lots of comments. These were difficult files; lots of math, tables & diagrams, some with a two-column layout, many with comments in Chinese, some with Chinese in the text, e. g. papers on multilingual applications. It was also a complicated environment; students all had Chinese versions of software, mostly XP & MS Office, but the papers I dealt with were in English. In that context, L-O mostly worked right but it was flakier than a sheepdog with dandruff. Unreadable comments -- either students not being able to read mine or both mine & student replies coming out as rubbish when a file came back to me -- were the worst annoyance, but there were plenty of others. Some .docx files LO could not read at all and others it mangled formatting. I gave up and edited those with MS Office. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
