[Sussex] OpenOffice.org2 Track Changes

[frances at pugwash.uthink.co.uk]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:59:53, Ronan Chilvers wrote:
> A question for our resident OpenOffice.org gurus (Frances, I'm looking at
> you... :-) ).  The word processing component of a certain other well
> known office suite has a feature called 'Track Changes' which allows a
> change history to be embedded in a document.  This serves as a type of
> version control.  Does OpenOffice.org have a similar feature?  I'm
> thinking of v2 which comes as the standard on Ubuntu Breezy.

In the previous version, there were two menu locations for this:

You controlled the options somewhere within Tools > Options
Then you did the actual tracking via Edit > Changes

I've got the OpenOffice.org Writer textbook for the previous version at
home. I can bring it to the next Moot for you to look at, if you're
interested. I don't really expect that the menu entries will have changed
out of recognition.