On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 05:26 -0800, Hassan wrote: > [Re-sent message with a more appropriate subject line] > > Hi, I'm new to this forum, but have a question: > > I am part of a development team in an IT project,and > use OpenOffice writer to write technical report > occasionally. > > In our reports, we would like to be able to see which > lines in a modified open office document have been > changed, by a vertical line on the left margin next to > the line(s) that have been modified, but not the > actual text that has been inserted/deleted - in other > words, the final text for that line only. > > Example: If I have the following lines in version 1 of > my document: > > A is for apple > B is for banana > C is for carrot > > I enable the change tracking feature in open office: > edit->changes->record. I then change the word 'banana' > to 'bingo' in the second line, by deleting the 'anana' > bit and insert 'ingo'. I would like to see only the > following: > > A is for apple > | B is for bingo > C is for carrot > > But if I select options->text document->changes from > the open office menu option, and set every option to > 'None' apart from 'lines changed' to 'left margin', I > get > > A is for apple > | B is for bingoanana > C is for carrot > > And if I deselect the edit->changes->show option, I > get the right text I wanted, but with no vertical bar > in the left margin. > > Such a feature is available in at least the competing > applications of MS Word and Adobe Framemaker, and > something we find very useful in our line of work. > > Is there something we are doing wrong or is this a > missing feature possibly? >
What is stopping you from creating documents of two columns? One column could contain | the other can contain whatever comments on the same line. Was this tried? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
