Hello,

where I study, submitted activities are demanded to be send in M$ Word format (doc or docx). This is not a problem, usually. I just make what i want in LibreOffice, normally, and before sending it i save a copy as doc (or docx, if any formatting issue happens, but it was never needed), and send.

This week, though, something very strange happened. It should happen like the following steps:

1. I send a .doc/.docx file with a project to be done in the future.

2. The teacher makes needed comments or corrections in this file, so I have some directions to make the real work, using that file.

3. I make changes to the file, remove comments when I do not need them anymore, and add everything I want or need.

4. Submit it again.

But there are crazy things happening: all the text I add, in step 3, is yellow and underlined, no matter where I add it. It can be inside the parts that have different formatting!

I assumed it could be something crazy about .doc format I used. Fine. So, I saved the file as .odt and tried to edit it then. No use! Unbelievable. What to do, then?

I have made a video to show you everything I described. Notice: The paper in the video is brown because I change this setting in LibreOffice; but it does not affect the paper color in the files; if (for example), another person open a file I created, she will see the file normally; and the exported PDF files also will not have a brown paper.

https://share.vidyard.com/watch/Vikaq8GmxckrakQDpcCK2C

I do not send two videos because the same thing happens in both files: .doc and .odt converted from it. But i send you the files, so you can test and see:

.doc file: https://www.udrop.com/5KsG/projetoDoTrabalhoFinal.doc

.odt file "saved as" from file above: https://www.udrop.com/5KsH/projetoDoTrabalhoFinal.odt

My first guess is that the LO "track changes" has somehow gotten turned on.

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I did not know LibreOffice had this thing. It was this. In submenu Edit > Track changes, "Record changes" was turned on, and "show changes" too. Turning both off, solved the problem. Probably I could leave "Record changes" on, but it is not needed.

Thank you very much, frankbell. (:

You are most welcome.

I'm glad I could help.

It's a feature that I have never needed to use, because all the documents I wrote for work were solo efforts, but I was aware of it (at least in MS Office), because my girl, well, womanfriend was a professional editor before she retired, and often used it with persons who submitted articles to the magazine she edited.

It's useful when you have a team who are collaborating on a document and independently making edits to it. The overall editor can see all the changes made and either delete them or merge them in.

Listen to me.

I've been to College recently. I had exactly the same issue. Libreoffice is good and maybe it implements the spec better than M$ Word, but it is not M$ Word. It's often font substitution. Libreoffice doesn't have half as many bugs.

The thing to do: Do your LO document, put it on a usb stick or email it to yourself. Grab a pc in the college, and correct issues there. Read the edits on a College pc. Do your work where you want, but run it through M$ Word to verify. If you don't, you'll lose the marks, nobody else will.

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I wanted an easier way to change this LibreOffice thing on/off. If it told me about this new feature that, in more than 20 years (since i was a child!) playing with computers, i have never seen in rich text editors, and i still do not see much practical use for it - differently for source code changes, where well used diffs can have great meanings and practices.

Anyway, thank you all. This thread is solved, i found the solution for problem i had. But any future comment will be welcome.