looking for Word 2000 "Review Toolbar" equivalent in OpenOffice

Michael ODonnell michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Tue Mar 2 10:38:21 EST 2004


>On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 08:07, Michael ODonnell wrote:
>> Ah.  If you announce that you're Recording changes you're then
>> able to enter Review comentary in a little dialog box.  Clunky.
>> That commentary is viewable later in the same clunky dialog...
>
> Clunky or a feature, I guess its how you look at it.  How many
> organizations have accidentally leaked out info due to the
> auto-recording and undo features of Word?  At least if you have
> to turn on recording, you have to be trying *really* hard to shoot
> yourself in the foot.  ;-)


Although I understand your general point I have a different
take.  If a cow-orker annotates an otherwise non-sensitive
document with sensitive info in the Review Comments and
then forwards a copy of that annotated doc to me, and if I
am not aware that its annotations (which are not apparent
when the document is being viewed normally, right?)
ought not be seen by outsiders, I might (incorrectly)
conclude that it's OK to forward a copy to an outsider.

This scenario doesn't seem unlikely, and a less clunky
interface might have made it easier for me to notice that
the doc had sensitive annotations.

Please note that I am participating in this discussion
unburdened by substantial experience in the matter...  ;->
 



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