Hassan,
You can get what you want by setting the deletion marking method to
<none> and deleting a space in every line where a change has been made.
If you take care to add one extra space when making changes, then delete
that space after accepting each change, the document will survive
someone globally accepting all changes. Of course, if that happens
you'll lose all your margin markers as well. To keep your sanity while
accepting/rejecting changes, keep the deleting marking set to strike
through and change it to none when you're done.
tc
Derick Centeno wrote:
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?
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