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  1. Bug #915059
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 915059

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Leo H (leo-h-hildebrandt) wrote : Re: Compare Document highlighting unchanged words as changed

Dear Christopher

Thanks for your reply and for your thorough analysis of this bug.

I have submitted this bug to the LibreOffice Bugzilla as you suggested. The bug report is on:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44847

Clearly, the fundamental flaws and weaknesses in LibreOffice Writer Document Compare have been an issue for very long, as is well documented on:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Track_changes

Evidently, little if anything appears in fact to have been resolved here since OpenOffice itself was launched, more than 10 years ago now.

Yet I cannot emphasize enough the importance in a professional document production and editing environment of a competent and fine-grained Document Compare functionality in LibreOffice Writer for document change identification, revision management and version control.

I sincerely hope that both Canonical and the Ubuntu community help pushing this issue to the top of the agenda of the LibreOffice developers.

Leo