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Yep. In particular, "track changes". As soon as you have to collaborate on a document with a lawyer or a counterparty, track changes becomes a must-have. I'm

by brown 15y ago

Yep. In particular, "track changes". As soon as you have to collaborate on a document with a lawyer or a counterparty, track changes becomes a must-have. I'm not quite as pessimistic. These are solvable problems. It's just taking a really long time.

wazoox 15y ago
In 2004/5 I had to collaborate with a windows shop and used some change tracking and other collaborative features without any problem. I sometimes feel like these compatibility troubles aren't as bad as people want them to be.
- nasmorn 15y ago
  I opened a doc today where libre office would crash predictably once i scrolled past some page. The whole office software system hasnt evolved much since frameworks on my brothers XT 25 years ago. By that i mean it is still as painful, it sure has more features now.
  - wazoox 15y ago
    My migration away from Microsoft started in 2000 when I ditched MS Office 2000 for StarOffice. Word for instance constantly opened popups such as "Word can't find the serbo-croatian dictionary. would you want to install it?" while I was typing.
  - Create 15y ago
    Please be kind and file an issue and provide the test-case. thank you. http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/
Udo 15y ago
Yes, it's a must-have, that's why it's been part of LibreOffice for quite a while: go to menu Edit > Changes > Record, or to review all the changes to the document use the "Accept or Reject" function. It's all there, isn't it? What is it with LibreOffice's change tracker that you don't like?
- ams6110 15y ago
  I think the issue is that it doesn't play well with Word's change tracker. But I could be wrong; my change tracker is diff(1).
  - brown 15y ago
    Yes, exactly what ams6110 said. The change tracking just isn't compatible enough. If you have a completely plain vanilla document -- no formatting, no line breaks, no headers, no footers, no tables, nothing -- then OpenOffice/LibreOffice's tracking is good enough. But documents are rarely that simple. And, unfortunately, your lawyer or VC or potential acquirer really isn't interested in discussions about document formats. They have better things to do, and they expect you to be able to communicate with them.

by brown 15y ago

wazoox 15y ago

In 2004/5 I had to collaborate with a windows shop and used some change tracking and other collaborative features without any problem. I sometimes feel like these compatibility troubles aren't as bad as people want them to be.

nasmorn 15y ago
I opened a doc today where libre office would crash predictably once i scrolled past some page. The whole office software system hasnt evolved much since frameworks on my brothers XT 25 years ago. By that i mean it is still as painful, it sure has more features now.
- wazoox 15y ago
  My migration away from Microsoft started in 2000 when I ditched MS Office 2000 for StarOffice. Word for instance constantly opened popups such as "Word can't find the serbo-croatian dictionary. would you want to install it?" while I was typing.
- Create 15y ago
  Please be kind and file an issue and provide the test-case. thank you. http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/

Udo 15y ago

Yes, it's a must-have, that's why it's been part of LibreOffice for quite a while: go to menu Edit > Changes > Record, or to review all the changes to the document use the "Accept or Reject" function. It's all there, isn't it? What is it with LibreOffice's change tracker that you don't like?

ams6110 15y ago
I think the issue is that it doesn't play well with Word's change tracker. But I could be wrong; my change tracker is diff(1).
- brown 15y ago
  Yes, exactly what ams6110 said. The change tracking just isn't compatible enough. If you have a completely plain vanilla document -- no formatting, no line breaks, no headers, no footers, no tables, nothing -- then OpenOffice/LibreOffice's tracking is good enough. But documents are rarely that simple. And, unfortunately, your lawyer or VC or potential acquirer really isn't interested in discussions about document formats. They have better things to do, and they expect you to be able to communicate with them.