Hi All,
I need your guru help bad. I have read through some posts re track changes, and none seem to indicate having had this issue. When i track changes, instead of expected behaviour on tracking deletions... the deleted text actually deletes, and yes "show" is selected in edit menu and tracking is enabled because the rest of the text is formated as per normal track change formatting (underlined and specifically coloured by author). When i go into accept reject changes it only lists insertions, none of the deletes I do are shown, or can be filtered as they do not exist. All I get is insertions. There is no way to specifically configure writer with regard to what it will and wont track, you simply turn on tracking and it tracks ALL actions, i assumed. Has anyone else had this issue and if so how do you solve it?
I am running the latest install, downloaded 4 days ago, and have uninstalled and reinstalled app to see if this helped, it didn't, so I hunted through registery getting rid of any entries related to openoffice, and reinstalled still not good. The thing that is even scarier, is that when i first enabled tracking it behaved as expected, deletions remained on page with a strikethrough, and could be seen in the accept reject list, I was not sure as i had never worked with tracking before and thought hmmm i really hate that strikethrough and tried to remove it using the formatting toolbar and of course not much happened. I closed the .doc opened it again and since then cannot track deletions, Please do help guys I have an essay due tonight and showing tracking is part of the assessment criteria.
Cheers,
SPawny
Track Changes nurfed
Track Changes nurfed
OpenOffice 3.1 on Windows 7 64bit
Re: Track Changes nurfed
I sense that I am in the wrong time zone for quick responses, I also fear that in the attempt to replicate you will simply decide I am mad
I swear it is only tracking insertions - i can try to take a screeny sequence to at least demonstrate what is meant if that is required, but I am more than sure there is adequate information. Humbly yours and at your mercy
SPawny
I swear it is only tracking insertions - i can try to take a screeny sequence to at least demonstrate what is meant if that is required, but I am more than sure there is adequate information. Humbly yours and at your mercy
SPawny
OpenOffice 3.1 on Windows 7 64bit
Re: Track Changes nurfed
zomg...have i done something wrong? haha..not one reply hmmmmm
OpenOffice 3.1 on Windows 7 64bit
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Re: Track Changes nurfed
Is the Changes>Record option activated?
LibreOffice 7.6.2.1 on Xubuntu 23.10 and 7.6.4.1 portable on Windows 10
Re: Track Changes nurfed
Indeed, the observation shared is that the track change is only tracking insertion events, not deletion events, formats or table changes. The text I delete is being deleted instead of default formatting for track change event deletion (strikethrough). I would assume this answers the question? I will say also that Edit>Changes>Show is also selected to show tracked changes as they occur.
OpenOffice 3.1 on Windows 7 64bit
Re: Track Changes nurfed
I can't reproduce that behaviour - not even if I save the file in MS Word format, which you probably do. I didn't try recording changes in formatting, but if I remember correctly, that wasn't supported by older versions of Word either.
OpenOffice 4.1.11 on Ubuntu; LibreOffice 6.4 on Linux Mint, LibreOffice 7.6.2.1 on Ubuntu
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Re: Track Changes nurfed
Normal behaviour with "record changes" enabled:
- If you insert text, that text will be marked as an insert. If you delete from that insert, deletion behaves like normal (content disappears without any edit markup).
- If you delete original text (text that was there before recording of changes was enabled), that text will remain, marked for deletion (overstrike).
- If a different user opens the document and deletes from an insert, it will be marked for deletion.
- Hover the mouse pointer over recorded changes to see who made them.
Apache OO 4.1.12 and LibreOffice 7.5, mostly on Ms Windows 10
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I am having the same problem as spawnnoob reported. When viewing the document saved in Writer (MS Word 2007 .doc format) with Mac Word 2008, there is no tracking of changes. It would be great to be able to standardise on Writer but I need this function.
MS Word for Mac 2008 on MacOS 10.5 / OpenOffice 2.3 on Ubuntu 10.04
Re: Track Changes nurfed
Seriously, I can't recommend using OOo and Word professionally in one project - it's bound to get you into trouble. In the long run, buying Word will cost you less than sticking to this misery.
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