Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 76935
Table, frame, header, footer, graphic structure (delete, insert) not changes tracked (redlining)
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:21:51 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.
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?"
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.
@MBA: Reassigning to you in case we have some resources for this.
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.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".