looking for Word 2000 "Review Toolbar" equivalent in OpenOffice

[Kevin D. Clark]

Bruce McCulley wrote:

> Can't help with OO but from my experience with Word, 
> comments !== changes.  This may affect some of the suggested
> work-arounds.

Thanks to everybody for their comments.  I think that Bruce's comment
pretty much sum things up though.

In my case, a co-worker composed a document, and then another
co-worker used the Word 2000 "review toolbar" feature to record his
comments.  He didn't actually alter the contents of the document, and
he didn't select "record changes" either.

I wanted to see these comments before I reviewed the document (to save
myself some time) so I looked for similar functionality in OpenOffice.
I didn't find this feature in AbiWord either, BTW. 

Remember: with either OpenOffice or AbiWord, it was impossible for me
to see the other reviewer's comments on this document.  "Show Changes"
didn't show me anything, and neither did "compare documents".

I have to confess that I'd never heard of this feature before this
time -- before now, I've always used the "record changes" feature for
this task.  Either that, or I've just used a colored pen...

I think that this is just a feature that the OpenOffice development
team needs to add to their product.  This shouldn't be a big deal.

Again, thanks to everybody for their comments!

--kevin
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