https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54068
Bug #: 54068
Summary: The "Edit>Compare Documents" command does not detect
changes in tables properly
Classification: Unclassified
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 3.6.1.1 rc
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
The "Edit>Compare Documents" command does not detect changes in tables
properly.
If I make a minor change in a table, Writer has the following problems:
(1) The whole table is shown as "deleted",
(2) A new table (with the changed cell) is shown as "inserted".
The impression is that Writer treats the table as atomic change (it cannot
detect changes at cell/row/column level).
(3) While the Writer shows one deleted table and one inserted table, the
"Accept or reject changes" window does not have related entries.
Even if you go through all entries in this window one by one, Writer will never
highlight the inserted table OR the deleted table, and offer you to accept or
reject that particular change.
In other words, the earlier impression that "Writer treats entire table as a
single unit" does not hold true now!
(4) The "Accept or reject changes" window can highlight only the first and last
cells of inserted table; not the entire "inserted" table.
Note that these cells may not be changed at all!
(5) The "Accept or reject changes" window can NOT highlight the deleted table
at all.
(6) The actually changed cell (which should have been the SOLE focus of this
exercise) is NOT highlighted at all.
To sum up, the Writer misses the entire point of highlighting just the changes,
and letting the user decide whether to accept it.
*****
I conducted an experiment, in which I created a simple document with some text
and a table. I duplicated that document and added a small text to one cell of
the table.
Then I compared these documents using Edit>Compare documents.
I turned on the Edit>Changes>Show option.
I also turned on the Edit>Changes>Accept or reject... option.
I took screenshot of this result, and created a third document called
"analysis" to explain what exactly is wrong.
All three documents are attached.
Also see Bug#44847.
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