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User grw changed the following:
What |Old value |New value
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Status|CLOSED |UNCONFIRMED
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Resolution|INVALID |
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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 2 21:20:06 +0000
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AH .. didn't realise Word didn't support comments in footnotes.
However, I am not sure that this is just an MS development issue. It's a
compatibility issue. (What say Microsoft don't add this feature?) Openoffice
seems to have put a lot of energy into improving OOo Writer/Word compatibility.
I just wonder if there's not something that can be done here? If people who
convert to openoffice then realise that Word can't read notes they have inserted
in OOo, they are likely to return to Word, simply because most people use it.
One big PROBLEM is that if you insert a note in a footnote in a .doc document in
OOo, save and close, and then reopen the document in OOo, then the note will
have disappeared. The note you inserted in OOo will no longer be visible in OOO.
Is this not a problem? (I worked all day on something recently and lost all the
notes I added. It was .doc becaue I wanted to email it to someone afterwards.)
Secondly, isn't it a good thing for whatever content you add in OOo to be
visible in some form in Word, despite Word's limitations? Could notes inserted
(using OOo) in footnotes in .doc documents not appear as comments following the
footnote number in the main body of the text, for example, with a little
'Comment re. footnote 3' added in? (I am no programmer - just giving a users
perspective.)
Alternatively, if someone is working on a .doc document and they try to insert a
note, maybe a warning could appear: 'WARNING: .doc documents don't support notes
inserted in footnotes. Your note will not be saved if you close this document'
??? Maybe the warning could appear the first time they add any note in an .odt
doc. 'WARNING: if you later save your file as .doc, some of your notes will
disappear'.
Gwyn
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