Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer, Google Docs and random bookmarks

Thank you for the suggestion, but the Chromebooks are owned and managed by their respective school 
districts and I have online students across many different school districts. I have tried for four 
decades to get IT departments to consider FOSS solutions only to be rebuffed by the inertia of the 
moment. Back in the 80s, IT managers lived by the mantra, “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.” 
Today you can say the same thing and substitute Microsoft or Google.

Virgil

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From: Gabriele Bertolucci <gabriele.bertolucci@protonmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2025 4:55:40 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer, Google Docs and random bookmarks

Hi Virgil,

I don't have an answer for your interesting question, and also I don't
have a device to test the problem onto.

But... I try to solve the problem following a different approach.

I think you are in the right position to promote LibreOffice usage
directly on Chromebooks with your students.

For that goal, I suggest you the following video, which clearly
describes the few steps to do to have LO installed on Chromebooks.

If your students will use it to create their writings, then they will be
able to upload them on college's online portal.

No costs, no fees, LO community increases: great satisfaction.

> I teach at a local college and my students often have writing assignments. Many of my students 
> are dual enrollment attending both high school and college, and many of them use Google 
> Chromebooks supplied by their high schools. As a result, they compose their writing assignments 
> on Google Docs and then save them in an MS-Word format for uploading to the college’s online 
> portal.
>
> I then download the assignments to LO Writer and grade them. I find that, with files created by 
> Google Docs, the document will often have random groupings of words bookmarked throughout the 
> file. The word groupings are surrounded by [square brackets] and all of the bookmarks have names 
> beginning with “_int_” followed by a string of random looking letters and numbers.
>
> I’m not concerned about this being an issue with LO. I am just wondering if anyone else has seen 
> this type of behavior when editing documents in LO that were originally created by Google Docs. 
> If so, does anyone know what these random bookmarks might mean? I’m confident my students are not 
> deliberately creating random bookmarks, but I am wondering if they are doing something else that 
> might result in a bookmark being created by Google Docs even without their knowledge.
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Gabriele Bertolucci


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