Track changes
Introduction
This page aims to collect some information on the track changes feature of Writer. It also aims to collect some ideas on potential improvements in this area in Writer.
Track changes is a possibility for Writer users to keep track of the changes a user makes or other users have made to a document. All changes are recorded and are visualized in order to ease the review of a document. All those changes can be accepted or rejected by the user. Especially people, who use Writer in workgroups or who review other documents require and use this feature.
Writer's implementation of track changes is functional, but may need improvement in some areas, namely: Visualization of track changes, Printing of track changes, efficient detection of changes made to a document, and track changes in tables and frames.
Related issues and requirements
- Show change tracking comments inside the margin Issue 92154 ,Issue 88879 ,Issue 66293
- Improvements to printing of notes (and other objects inside the margin Issue 767 ,Issue 61644
- Compare Document does not compare only differences Issue 54195
Ideas for improvements
Competitive Analysis
- Microsoft Word 2007: Word displays the changes made (deletions and format changes) in the right margin of the page. The changes of different users are displayed in different colours.
- Track changes while you edit (2009-03-13)
Related OpenOffice extensions
- [http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/DeltaXMLODTCompare DeltaXMLODTCompare
Manuals on using Writer's existing track changes features
Press Coverage and blogs on track changes
- Brendan Scott’s Weblog: OOo Compare: Inadequate (2009-03-13)
