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

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Tom Davies wrote:

> Hi :)
> Would an acceptable work-around be to send 2 versions of the document?  The old and the new? 
>
> In 'most' (?) cases people would hopefully already have the old version, or an even older one.  Then hopefully the "Compare 
> Documents" feature in the various different programs might provide roughly the same functionality?  Doesn't "track changes" 
> have a way of allowing comments that show-up if you hover over a particular change?  I'm not sure of a good way to cover that sort of thing 
> with "Compare" rather than "Track".

In my experience, the Compare Documents feature is very 
unsatisfactory. For one thing, it will often flag an entire paragraph 
as having changed when only a word or two in the paragraph has 
changed.

- Robert

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