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mfitch62
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 Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject: OOoWriter note feature vs. MS Word comment feature |
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| As a teacher, I have started asking students to submit their written assignments to me by email. One thing I really like about Microsoft Word is the comment feature. In Word 2003 I can identify exactly which text I want to comment on because Word highlights the selected text. It also displays the comment in a nice little balloon box in the right hand margin. This is a really slick feature and is so much better than the note feature in OooWriter that it discourages me from recommending OooWriter to students. |
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9point9
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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I would suggest giving your comments in a seperate file. As a student I have had some bad experiences with comments given on the file itself. In one case he had destroyed most of my formatting so many of his comments were invalid.
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dwerf
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| Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 11:45 am Post subject: |
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It's true, the comments in OOo, named 'notes' are not as handy as the ones in Word. I'm having problems with them too now, because OOo just won't read the comments put in by my boss. She's telling me to start using a proper program, but I think OOo is doing just fine for something that's free of charge...
Work to be done!
check this thread I started: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=36175&highlight=comments |
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jrkrideau
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| 9point9 wrote: | | I would suggest giving your comments in a seperate file. As a student I have had some bad experiences with comments given on the file itself. In one case he had destroyed most of my formatting so many of his comments were invalid. |
I have not had that problem but I did make enough suggested changes and comments on a short 2 paragraph piece that it was impossible to tell what was what  I like the concept that Adobe and Word have but it is not always that useful in practice.
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AndrewZ
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject: Re: OOoWriter note feature vs. MS Word comment feature |
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| mfitch62 wrote: | | It also displays the comment in a nice little balloon box in the right hand margin. |
The "notes2" feature 6193 is implemented for OOo 3.0 and is ready for testing now. Please try to break it and report any bugs.
Article: New Features in OpenOffice.org, An Early Look
mfitch62, I hope you still use OpenOffice.org.  This is a bit of an old post, so this reply is mostly "for the record' (such as people searching the archives).
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