Hi Richard,

Thank you for asking.

We use a really cool feature called "record changes". It's much better 
than using separate files or separate fonts:

 1. Open the document.
 2. Go to Edit > Changes > Record.

With this feature, OOo will keep track of all the changes done to the 
document. No need to use a different font or anything. In fact, it is 
better if you don't. Just make changes the way you normally would, and 
just let OOo keep track of them.

If you want to see how OOo is keeping track of the changes, select Edit > 
Changes > Show. You'll see that when you delete something, OOo crosses it 
out. Kind of like if you took a red pen and crossed out a sentence. And 
when you type, OOo shows the addition in red.

In addition to this, when you hand in the reviewed document, the 
maintainer will be able to accept/reject changes idividually. OOo has a 
neat dialog that makes this very easy.

While we are on this subject, let me mention another neat feature OOo has. 
It's called "notes". It's like adding yellow sticky notes to the document. 
Just go to Insert > Note. Type the note and click OK. You can write 
something like "I don't understand this section", or "good job Jean!", or 
whatever. You get the idea.

Please do use these features. They are very important for making 
OOoAuthors work smoothly. Without those, this project would never have 
gotten this far.

Cheers,
Daniel.


On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:03:34AM -0600, richard_patient wrote:
> How do you prefer the reviews to be written. Do you make changes to the 
> actual document or do you want a separate document with the changes and 
> ideas for the areas we have suggestions with.
> 
> Also if we make changes to the original text do we make it a different 
> font or otherwise distinguish it from the original text?

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