Issue 76935

Summary:	Table, frame, header, footer, graphic structure (delete, insert) not changes tracked (redlining)
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	sled10guy <sled10.guy>
Component:	editing	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	cno, eric.savary, gleppert, issues, mhillat, rmashenko
Version:	OOo 2.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	FEATURE	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description sled10guy 2007-05-04 00:31:59 UTC

NOTE: This bug was originally reported here -
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=224305

Tested Build:
Downloaded OOo_2.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz package from:
http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=linuxintelwjre&lang=en-US&version=2.2.0


Problem -
When asking OOo Writer to record changes, it seems to fail to record the
deletion of a row from a table.

Comment 1 eric.savary 2007-05-04 12:00:16 UTC

This is a general problem of object structure changes tracking.
Basically, Writer can only track text changes.

This applies to:
Tables
Frames
Haders
Footers
Graphics
...

For some or all of those actions
Insert
Delete
Formatting
...

Note: when implementing those trackings, we may choose the way MS-Word does when
encountering technical deadends: warn the user!
Ex (in Word):
- delete a table row -> change tracked
- delete a table column -> Warning: "Action will not be tracked - Do you want to
continue?"

Comment 2 gleppert 2009-03-08 14:41:59 UTC

Missing tracking of changes (without any notice to the user) is a severe bug and
not a feature. I just compared two versions (mine and one of a colleague)
containing some tables. By merging both documents I missed due to bug 76935 some
changes that were actually made to tables, but that were not displayed.

Please consider this earlier than "OOo Later". Thank you.

Comment 3 eric.savary 2009-03-08 16:18:02 UTC

@MBA: Reassigning to you in case we have some resources for this.

Comment 4 Roman 2012-01-20 09:25:18 UTC

It's very annoying bug, i forced to work with large amount of MS Word documents that has tracked changes in table and paragraph structure and I can't even normally read such documents because of structure inconsistency.

Comment 5 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:21:51 UTC

Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".