Open Office Writer

[Steve La Porta <st...@gmail.com>]

Good morning. I learning how to navigate through the tracking changes/red-lining feature of Open Office Writer. 

I am editing a long project and want to become familiar with it. I am having two initial problems and hoping to learn solutions. 

1) I went into the preferences and changed the font color for editing from the default red to dark blue. The edits I made were shown in dark blue, however, after re-opening the file the next day, the edits all appeared in lime green? Do you have any suggestions for maintaining the color of choice?

2) I find the underscoring of words, phrases, and punctuations to be visually distracting -- especially in the context of strike through edits. In short, there are horizontal lines everywhere on the page. Is there a means of undoing the underscore feature? 

Thanks very much for your help. 

Cheers, 

Steve

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Re: Open Office Writer

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>]

At 07:38 12/04/2014 -0700, Steve La Porta wrote:
>1) I went into the preferences and changed the font color for 
>editing from the default red to dark blue. The edits I made were 
>shown in dark blue, however, after re-opening the file the next day, 
>the edits all appeared in lime green? Do you have any suggestions 
>for maintaining the color of choice?

It should happen naturally, I think.  But note that the colour scheme 
for changes is maintained in the software, not in the document.  So 
if you changed the color from dark blue to lime green after saving 
and closing the document, the new colours would show when you 
re-opened it.  If you send such a document to others, they will see 
their choice of colours, not yours.  And I'm assuming that the 
colours changes are saved in the OpenOffice user profile, so colours 
will (potentially) even be different for different users on the same 
system and using the same installation of OpenOffice.

Incidentally, Microsoft Word is notorious for shuffling colours in 
Track Changes.  Are you perhaps (unwisely) saving your document in 
Microsoft Word format?  Could that be the cause of problems?

>2) I find the underscoring of words, phrases, and punctuations to be 
>visually distracting -- especially in the context of strike through 
>edits. In short, there are horizontal lines everywhere on the page. 
>Is there a means of undoing the underscore feature?

I'm not sure what you are seeing here: surely Underlined and 
Underlined:double are simply options you can choose to mark 
changes?  If you have chosen Strikethrough you should not see any 
additional underlining.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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