Readers, Have done a bug report on both LO and AOO, about the 'changes' feature of the word processor. (It's excellent that there are multiple products available to produce ODF files, but I digress). There are many bugs concerning this feature, which is surprising.
In the typical collaborative environment, the superior functionality of m$ "track changes" makes the possibility to use LO unrealistic. Suppose LO is used to create an original odt document (the preferred option of course). When that file is distributed to m$ users, the functionality of 'changes' in LO will probably be considered to be weak and people will be justified to ask: "please send an m$ word document". What is the experience of others distributing odt documents to m$ users? Alternatively, the "realpolitik" option is to use LO to create an m$ word document, but as commented before, such an option merely perpetuates the proliferation of m$ at the direct cost to odf. Which leads to the next question: is the priority to improve the feature of LO such that 'changes' in odt format is superior to 'track changes' in m$ and that when odt documents are distributed, m$ users can perform simple tasks such as recording document changes? Or is the priority for LO to be compatible with m$, so that m$ word continues to be the de facto standard? -- LO35 -- For 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
