This sounds like doing versioning. whEN u have support for saving automatically as closred u would be able to do that.
On 9/19/07, TaMa WaDDeLL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose a new idea for open office. I believe that the "save > as" feature is out of date and for it to be replaced with "journals". > > This is a simple idea let me explain. Whenever you are starting a new > document or opening an existing document it should open up a window called > your "journal" this will organize, tag, index, sort, whatever all your > documents and provide the user with every single change that has taken place > in your document, what time that change took place and possible even with > more than one user working on the document it could show who made the > changes. > > The advantages of this is the ablitiy to find what your after within a > document easily, compare documents easily!, take note of all your changes in > your document and be able to revert to any time and see that state of the > document then, no more worrying about where you kept your documents, no need > to back up your documents anymore. > > Situation 1: > You are working on a big letter to a long lost friend. You originally wrote > down what you did that weekend and how your family is, you take a coffee > break and return to find you no longer want to include what your family is > up to and remove it and instead wrote about your career. Later that > afternoon you return to your letter and you find you in fact do want to > include how your family is.. if you didnt "save as" a backup, you would now > have to retype all that. but with journals you simply open up your journal > flick back or rewind to the date/time you previously added how your family > was (which will be automatically done noting every change) then copy it into > your current new document and send away!! > > Situation 2: > You are writing a large business proposal removing, adding, editing, (fonts > colours etc) all your text very frequently and your are consistently getting > new input from other people. With journals you will no longer have to "save > as" a frequent back up every small or large change without worrying if it > should or should not fit with the final copy, you will no longer have to > open lots of previous backups to find that small change you later removed > that suddenly became necessary. Instead of lots of saved documents you will > have just one journal. The journal will record every single change and you > can rewind through time to grab any changes you have previously made, you > can search for changes compare what differences you have made throughout the > time on working on the document. > > It will help in many scenarios that are similar! > > Dont waste time wishing you had backed up your previous document or waste > time searching through many backed up documents to find the right change.. > instead skip through time with the journal.. > > Thanks open office team, get back to me if you decided to use my idea or > anything similar cause i wanna know for self satisfaction. > -- > - Tama > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
