Bug 132168 - Track changes submenu is missing
Summary: Track changes submenu is missing
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.4.3.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2020-04-17 00:11 UTC by bunkem
Modified: 2020-05-02 06:02 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Attachments
Missing sub menu. (126.98 KB, image/png)
2020-04-17 00:11 UTC, bunkem
Details
From Help:Search and typing Track into the search field (355.37 KB, image/png)
2020-04-17 00:13 UTC, bunkem
Details

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Description bunkem 2020-04-17 00:11:36 UTC
Created attachment 159644 [details]
Missing sub menu.

Version: 6.4.3.2
Build ID: 747b5d0ebf89f41c860ec2a39efd7cb15b54f2d8
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.14.6; UI render: default; VCL: osx; 
Locale: en-CA (en_CA.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

The submenu is not available when selecting from the Edit:Track Changes menu.

Please see attached screenshots.

The document was a Mac Word docx.
Comment 1 bunkem 2020-04-17 00:12:40 UTC
Work around is to type Track Changes in the menu "Help:Search" and you find the submenu items.  See second image.
Comment 2 bunkem 2020-04-17 00:13:43 UTC
Created attachment 159645 [details]
From Help:Search and typing Track into the search field

The submenu is there but not accessible except via the search.
Comment 3 Dieter 2020-04-21 19:11:26 UTC
Sorry, but the bug report is not clear to me

In main menu you have

VIEW => TRACK CHANGES There is no submenu, and I won't expect a submenu, because it is only the setting to make changes visible or unvisible

EDIT => TRACK CHANGES and a submenu this is also visible in your second screenshot. So why is it missing.

So please specify the problem and explain, waht do you expect. Thank you.

=> NEEDINFO
Comment 4 bunkem 2020-04-22 17:05:11 UTC
I apologize that it wasn't clear.

The first image shows what you see when you look in the Edit:Track Changes menu.  There is no sub menu.

On the Mac you can also use the Search under the help menu to find commands.  So when you type "Track Changes" into the search box, the Mac allows you to see all the track changes menu and submenu items.  This is image 2.

Does this help explain?
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2020-04-23 03:38:47 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Dieter 2020-04-25 08:49:07 UTC
(In reply to bunkem from comment #4)
> I apologize that it wasn't clear.
> 
> The first image shows what you see when you look in the Edit:Track Changes
> menu.  There is no sub menu.

No, first image shows entries in View menu. Please check that
=> NEEDINFO
Comment 7 bunkem 2020-04-25 19:41:39 UTC
Perhaps my terminology is wrong.  What I mean is that the image shows there is no submenu.  There is no arrow showing there is a submenu.  No arrow, no submenu.

Or perhaps it a sub-sub menu?

Please review the first image "Missing sub menu".  No arrow beside the "Track changes" and since there is no arrow there is no way to access the sub(-sub) menu.

Above the Track menu item you see the arrows that indicate the additional sub menu.  You can see there is no arrow to get to the sub-menu where the "Record/Show/etc etc. are located.
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2020-04-26 03:39:51 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 NISZ LibreOffice Team 2020-04-26 11:21:40 UTC
(In reply to bunkem from comment #7)
> Perhaps my terminology is wrong.  What I mean is that the image shows there
> is no submenu.  There is no arrow showing there is a submenu.  No arrow, no
> submenu.
> 

That's expected: the Edit -> Track Changes item is a submenu where you can do enable/disable change tracking, accept/reject changes etc.

The View -> Track Changes item is a command where you can switch between showing the tracked additions/deletions of the document (default), and showing only the result of accepting those changes without actually accepting anything.

Maybe it would be better in the long run to rename the View menu command, as it is clearly confusing to have two different menu items with the same name.

Just for comparison Word has two CT view modes for this: All Markup is showing all tracked changes, while Simple Markup shows how the document would look after accepting all changes. 
See here:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2861859/how-to-track-changes-in-microsoft-word-without-going-insane.html
Comment 10 Dieter 2020-05-02 06:02:10 UTC
So I would say let's close it as NOTABUG. If somebody wants to propose to rename VIEW => Track Changes a new bug report should be opened.

=> RESOLVED NOTABUG