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

Thanks to all who replied.  Perhaps I was not clear.  I am trying to find out why the Modified Flag
would be set if I have made no changes.  What objects can LibreOffice Calc *silently* modify when 
starting
up that would cause the modified flag to be set?

While I can copy the files to a computer at home and try different versions, it would not actually 
be useful
for my purposes (perhaps someone on the list wants to know, however).  If some file opened without 
change
in another version of LibreOffice Calc, then it might mean that the file was created in that 
version.  That would
obviously be unacceptable if the exam was to be done in the lab using a particular version.

Unfortunately, the lab is public space (for many classes) and I do not
the authority  to modify what the technicians call the "lab load" in
the middle of a semester.  We will update to the latest version in early January.

Best regards,

David Gast
________________________________________
From: David Gast [David.Gast@csulb.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 12:33
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Modified Flag Set / No Changes

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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