Re: [libreoffice-users] Modified Flag Set / No Changes

Hi,

3.6 is EOL - please try with 4.1 and see if the problem is still there.


All the best,
Joel

On 10/21/2013 12:33 PM, David Gast wrote:
> Hi
> Perhaps you can help.
>
> My students submit examinations done in LibreOffice Calc to a web page.
> I bundle them up and download them to a Windows XP box running
> LO Version 3.6.4.3 (Build ID: 2ef5aff).  In previous semesters, an older
> version was used.  There were no problems like this in previous semesters.
>
> This semester close to one third of the submitted examinations are
> being modified when opened by me for grading.  I confirmed by
>
>    1. Open file (usually from the Cygwin command line, but also from Recent Documents)
>    2. Immediately clicking the X close icon in the upper right hand corner.
>    3. A message pops up asking whether I want to change, dismiss, or cancel.
>
> I typed nothing, yet if I cancel, and then do a save-as, the saved-as file is different.
>
> I have two hypotheses.
>
> #1)
> RANDBETWEEN() is used this year in some problems, perhaps it sometimes causes this
> problem.  I cannot recreate that behavior, however.  Further, Compare document shows no
> differences, nor does oodiff.
>
> #2)
> Some students did work outside of class and the version they used is not 100% compatible
> with the version in the labs.  My reasoning is that I found in one submittal (I have not checked
> all of them to this level of detail) that one of the fonts changed from something like
> "New Times Roman1" to "New Times Roman".   (I used unzip and then a script to split the
> various files into lines so that diff produced useful output.)
>
> Any advice?  Is it possible to determine what LO is changing?
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Gast


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