View → Toolbar → Track Changes

compressor_nickel · August 10, 2021, 12:35am

Why does Track Changes gets turned on?

Hello,

I am on Kubuntu 20.10

I have downloaded LibreOffice from this site and installed it myself, so I have Version = 7.1.5.2

If I click on Start - > Applications - > LibreOffice Writer

Writer opens and the “Track Changes” is NOT active.

That is good. I want it to be disabled.

Then, if I open a certain ODT file, “Track Changes” gets enabled.

Then I can disabled “Track Changes” by clicking on

View → Toolbar → Track Changes

Then I save the file, I close Writer.

Then I open Writer and “Track Changes” is NOT active.

That is good.

Then, if I open that ODT file, “Track Changes” gets enabled.

What is that magic thing? How can I disable it?

mikekaganski · August 10, 2021, 4:23am

What is this magic thing?

compressor_nickel · August 10, 2021, 1:44pm

Hello mikekaganski.
This forum is a bit confusing for me. I am trying to reply to you.
What did you mean by your reply?

mikekaganski · August 10, 2021, 2:25pm

I meant that you wrote something that is completely unclear. What is “Edit → Toolbar → Track Changes”? Is it some menu item? Then there’s no “Toolbar” under “Edit” menu. So it’s unknown what you did, and hence unknown what the problem was.

compressor_nickel · August 10, 2021, 3:00pm

This place is confusing. They should use a standard forum or something similar to youtube comment section.
Anyway, Sorry, that should have been View → Toolbar->Track Changes. I updates my question.

mikekaganski · August 10, 2021, 3:03pm

Assuming that you used “Record Track Changes” button there, it indeed should had disabled tracking changes in that document. Possibly you could create a sample document, removing everything from your document, making sure that the change tracking is still enabled after you reopen it (but that old data is not available - hopefully initial switch off erases previous tracking data), and post here to inspect?

compressor_nickel · August 10, 2021, 5:18pm

OK, when you said “removing everything from your document, making sure that the change tracking is still enabled after you reopen it”
that gave me an idea. On the track thing bar, there is a button with XX on it. I clicked that and looks like that solved the problem.
I guess the problem started when I pressed Ctrl-Shift-C and then, the text turned green.

mikekaganski · August 10, 2021, 2:57pm

Please do not post a clarification as an answer, which is to provide a solution to your question. Please delete this, and either re-post as a comment under my comment, or edit your question to make it a better question.

And note that you also need to tell which option you used on that toolbar: e.g., maybe you switched off display of the changes? Or had you e.g. accepted existing changes?