On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Cheryl wrote:
... In normal editing, the document is the focus, not a list of changes, and an editor wants to proceed by reading the document and making yes/no choices as the reading progresses. MSWord allows this simple functionality. As a change is read, clicking on it allows acceptance or rejection of that change. ... An editor may also jump around a document editing a few key sections out of order. A sequential list of changes naturally cannot be synchronized with this kind of necessary activity. ...
Both sequential and random-access accept/reject work quite well in OOo (but see reservation below). If you position your cursor at a given change in the document and bring up the accept/reject dialogue box (by clicking on Edit > Changes > Accept or Reject), the current change will be highlighted in the list, ready to be accepted or rejected. The next item in the list (normally the next change in the document) will then automatically be located and highlighted in the document and highlighted in the list, again ready to be accepted or rejected. Alternatively, you can use the up/down arrows within the dialogue box to sequentially handle changes, which can be sorted by document location (the default), action, date or author. If you want to skip around: locate any change in the document and then disable/enable the dialogue box (by clicking on 'Accept or Reject' twice).
The above can be facilitated by adding 'Accept or Reject' to your toolbar. (Unfortunately no icon is defined for it by default, but you can adopt one of the existing icons or make your own.)
Now for my reservation: sometimes Writer seems to get terribly confused, and starts using some unfathomable algorithm for deciding which change to highlight next in the list. I've been having great trouble with this recently but haven't yet checked for or submitted a bug report. I'd be interested to know if others have noticed this.
P.S. There was a posting recently about a problem with the sorting in the dialogue box: the default sorting by document location can't be restored after choosing one of the other sorting orders. The dialogue box also loses its scroll bar sometimes.
P.P.S. All this is not necessarily to say that the MS Word right-click mechanism might not also be useful, since so many people are used to it, but the existing mechanism is (or could be) extremely powerful.
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