I have now added a comment on this, to try and keep it live.

Thanks for the pointer.

Graham

On 05/04/2008, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 04/05/2008 01:45 AM, Graham Smith wrote:
> > Thanks,
> >
> > I collaborate on documents a lot (I don't know or work with anyone who
> > doesn't use Word) and for years I have watched OOo improve but never
> > actually  be good enough for collaboration. The latest version
> (NeoOffice in
> > my case) finally produced documents that didn't have any glaring
> problems
> > and I used it for a a full review only then to discover that the author
> > couldn't remove any of the highlights from the highlighted text. he was
> none
> > too pleased. And I admit, other than checking that I couldn't remove
> them
> > either, I didn't explore further.
> >
> > The highlighting, had not been added in OOo by me, but in Word by him.
> But I
> > couldn't remove in OOo, and when he got the file back, he couldn't
> remove in
> > Word.
> >
> > Unlike you, at the time, we did not have too much time on our hands and
> > needed to get the document out the door, meaning we did what Lindsey did
> and
> > deleted the highlighted sections and typed them in again.
> >
> > I shall look into putting in a bug report.
> >
>
>
> Start here:
> <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=24317>
> That looks to be the bug. Others via search:
> <
> http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/Search;jsessionid=8F272704F7CBCF5B34A0DD24F9BDEC2D?artifact=issuezilla+issue&query=remove%20highlight&resultsPerPage=40&scope=domain
> >
>
> Perhaps some added comments to that, and similar
> (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=76589)
> will put the spotlight back on so that it can be fixed in 3.0.
>
>
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