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[owlectomy]

You can have my Scrivener, Mellel, and NeoOffice when you pry them from my cold dead typing fingers.

But, oh dear, I will admit that editing is probably easier when everyone has the same software.

Will download the latest NeoOffice when I get home to see if that will, after all, display comments correctly. I had to buy Office once in grad school because I needed MS Access; I very much don't want to have to buy it again. (And THAT is on a laptop with half the keys missing that can't go half an hour without crashing; no luck there.)

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[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

One of the manymany reasons I am lusting after Macs is Scrivener.

I seem to remember OpenOffice handling track changes/commenting between Macs and PCs; it was a while ago, though, so don't quote me on it.

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

It's odd; the last edit I got, the comments showed up fine. This edit, the change-tracking shows up fine, but I'm not getting the comments.

One more try.

Why doesn't MSWord let me print out just the comments, or copy just the comments to a clipboard? My last resort is going to be spending the cash to print the whole thing from the library computers. Yeah, I can use the staff printers for the occasional personal print-out, but I'm not going to print out 187 pages when they're looking for reasons to lay people off.

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

I've often griped about not being able to copy comments in Word. That's one of the reasons I prefer inserting comments within the text as text, while in Track Changes mode.

Technology makes our lives easier! Really! *facepalm*

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that.

Really, I'm thrilled that I have a free open-source alternative that I can use, that is approximately 99% compatible with The One I Hate, but that last 1% is killing me here.