Locking may not work with PDF, which is what someone should be reviewing at this point on the Writer Guide for 3.6.
Your instructions are good for reviewing chapters of the Getting Started guide, which are in ODT format. Jean On 03/02/2013, at 9:06, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tim > The thing I usually do is select the file and then in the "Actions" menu > item, select "Check out". This locks the file, creates another copy in the > folder, and you take away a copy to work on. Have 'Record changes' enabled > when you open the document on your system to work on it, change what you > think needs changing, or make suggestions, leaving comments (Ctrl+Alt+C) > giving your reasons. Save the file on your system and change the filename by > adding an underscore, your initials, an underscore and alter the date. So > <Title>_JAS_TL_01Feb13. The date I do this way because I hate those long > strings of numbers which are messy and differ country to country. > When you're done, go back to ODF, select the checked out copy in the folder > and then in the "Actions" menu, select "Check in". > Go to the "Feedback" folder, select 'Add new' and 'File' and upload your > commented file. Once it's uploaded, go to the Draft LO 4.0 folder and delete > the file from there. > Inform the list you've uploaded a particular file. > > This may not be 'by the book' but it's what I've been doing, and works. > > Regards > JohnS > > On 03/02/2013 05:01, Tim Lloyd wrote: >> Hi, I downloaded the writer guide from the ODF website but I could not see >> any obvious way to set status to locked. A quick look at 3.6 shows all this >> text is also current. However... >> >> P9 "Moving quickly through a document"contains this sentence (below the >> figure): >> >> >> The Navigation toolbar (Figure 7) shows icons for all the object types shown >> in the Navigator, plus some extras (for example, the results of a *Find* >> command). >> >> "shows" and "shown" in the same sentence? "shows icons for all the object >> types /displayed/ in the Navigator" perhaps? >> >> P12 The paragraph below "Selecting a vertical block of text, the last >> sentence contains a number of "or" clauses. I think these would look better >> bulleted >> P14 The Caution: >> Use *Replace All* with caution; otherwise, you may end up with some >> hilarious (and highly embarrassing) mistakes. >> Personally I would be emphasising the embarassing while acknowledging, in >> brackets, that the mistakes may be hilarious. >> >> Cheers >> Tim > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
