For professional reasons, I have am working using the .odt format in MS Word 2013. So far I have not encountered many problems. Up until… I sent the report to a colleage, he did a large number of edits, with the ‘track changes’ on. When I received the document back I could not see the tracked changes anymore, either if i opened the document in MSWord or using LO Writer. Appearently, these tracked changes are lost. It seems like MS Word is (intentionaly?) unable to save tracked changes using .odt formats. Now it’s time to waste time on ‘spot the difference’ game.
Is there a way of saving and displaying tracked changes using the .odt format under MS Word 2013? Since we have to use MS Word, should we just give up and use .docx for collaborative work and convert it back to .odt in the future if we need to?