Re: [libreoffice-users] Copy / Paste - Include Recorded Changes?

On 05/08/2013 07:27 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 18:56 08/05/2013 -0700, Joel Madero wrote:
> > On 05/08/2013 07:05 PM, Joel Madero wrote:
> > > Is there a way for me to copy a bunch of stuff that has recorded 
> > > changes from one document and paste to another document including 
> > > the changes? A regular copy paste seems to just copy the actual 
> > > text, not the changes at all.
> >
> > ... I want everything including the changes copied over.
> > The rationale is that I have lots of documents that have been edited 
> > by different people. I would prefer moving these all to one and then 
> > actually looking at the changes and either accepting or not accepting 
> > the modified stuff.
>
> That's what I thought you meant!
>
> If you have sent the same text to multiple editors and the only 
> changes made to each copy are recorded changes, you can do this by 
> opening one document and then using Edit | Changes > | Merge 
> Documents... multiple times to merge each of the other documents. You 
> can then, as you desire, look at all the suggested changes together 
> when deciding to accept or reject any of them.
>
> But this works only if the documents differ only in recorded changes.  
> To make this work properly, you need to set the original document to 
> record changes (Edit | Changes > | Record) and then to protect this 
> setting using Edit | Changes > | Protect Records... and entering a 
> password *before* distributing your original.  Without this password, 
> the various editors will not be able to disable change recording, so 
> all the edited documents will come back in a state where the above 
> technique will work.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
Thanks! Going to try it out today :)


Best,
Joel

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