Re: [libreoffice-users] record changes weakness compared to m$

Hi :)  


That is the way we do our newsletter at work.  I use LO to pull together articles written by 
various different people using different programs (sadly mostly just different versions of MSO).  
When we used Word for our newsletter it took ages to sort out all the strange and different messes 
that people made.  With LO it's easy to just paste in as unformatted and then apply suitable styles 
to keep all the articles consistent with each other.  That Alt arrow trick has been a huge help in 
making this latest one MUCH better but even before that LO was a huge help in getting a superior 
output more quickly.  
Then my boss prints a copy and marks changes he wants in biro.  I make them and then print another 
copy for my other boss to make more changes in biro.  Then he confers with the 1st boss and then 
the 1st boss tells me the changes the other one wanted.  

Track changes could possibly be a lot more efficient imo but only if it works across the LO/MSO 
divide.  Still it's 3 months until i have to worry about it again and that typically means huge 
improvements in LO.  

Regards from
Tom :)  






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> From: e-letter <inpost@gmail.com>
> To: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com> 
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2012, 7:49
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] record changes weakness compared to m$
>
> On 19/12/2012, Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have never seen anyone use this feature in MSO (or LO). IMHO most
> > people find the it confusing or annoying. What seemed to work best for
> > most collaborative documents was to have one person be responsible for
> > final edits after getting input from all the others and the other
> > participants be responsible for a section of the document.
>
> In this case, LO could be used by the responsible person to distribute
> odf documents and then do final editing. Possible, but not as
> time-efficient as the software code environment whereby version
> control is used, to allow simultaneous editing of code. It would be
> nice if LO allowed version control (e.g. integration with a client
> such as ultravnc).
>
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