Thanks to all who replied. Perhaps I was not clear. I am trying to find out why the Modified Flag would be set if I have made no changes. What objects can LibreOffice Calc *silently* modify when starting up that would cause the modified flag to be set?
While I can copy the files to a computer at home and try different versions, it would not actually be useful for my purposes (perhaps someone on the list wants to know, however). If some file opened without change in another version of LibreOffice Calc, then it might mean that the file was created in that version. That would obviously be unacceptable if the exam was to be done in the lab using a particular version. Unfortunately, the lab is public space (for many classes) and I do not the authority to modify what the technicians call the "lab load" in the middle of a semester. We will update to the latest version in early January. Best regards, David Gast ________________________________________ From: David Gast [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 12:33 To: [email protected] Subject: [libreoffice-users] Modified Flag Set / No Changes Hi Perhaps you can help. My students submit examinations done in LibreOffice Calc to a web page. I bundle them up and download them to a Windows XP box running LO Version 3.6.4.3 (Build ID: 2ef5aff). In previous semesters, an older version was used. There were no problems like this in previous semesters. This semester close to one third of the submitted examinations are being modified when opened by me for grading. I confirmed by 1. Open file (usually from the Cygwin command line, but also from Recent Documents) 2. Immediately clicking the X close icon in the upper right hand corner. 3. A message pops up asking whether I want to change, dismiss, or cancel. I typed nothing, yet if I cancel, and then do a save-as, the saved-as file is different. I have two hypotheses. #1) RANDBETWEEN() is used this year in some problems, perhaps it sometimes causes this problem. I cannot recreate that behavior, however. Further, Compare document shows no differences, nor does oodiff. #2) Some students did work outside of class and the version they used is not 100% compatible with the version in the labs. My reasoning is that I found in one submittal (I have not checked all of them to this level of detail) that one of the fonts changed from something like "New Times Roman1" to "New Times Roman". (I used unzip and then a script to split the various files into lines so that diff produced useful output.) Any advice? Is it possible to determine what LO is changing? Best regards, David Gast -- To unsubscribe 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 -- To unsubscribe 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
