it would be amazing if there was an option so that an user could
select his default color for editing a document, so that i can easily
see what has been edited by me and what has been edited by other and
also identify WHO did it.
the page could also give default colors for editors, without them
having to select, so that the editor will see its own editions in
black, editor #2's in blue, editor #3's in red, and so on...
If you use the Insert->Comments feature, you can have your
collaboration whith colour codes entries for all collaborators (which
also contain a name time and date).
set up your overall structure as normal text and use the colour tagged
comments while editing the text. When a consensus it there how the
final text should look convert the comments (from the right-click/
context menu) to regular text and remove the name/time/date info. Now
do the mark-up (fonts, font sizes, etc.).
THis setup allows you to focus on collaborating on text, not on mark-
up. :)
On Aug 23, 3:07 am, mwgobetti <mwgobe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> it would be amazing if there was an option so that an user could
> select his default color for editing a document, so that i can easily
> see what has been edited by me and what has been edited by other and
> also identify WHO did it.
> the page could also give default colors for editors, without them
> having to select, so that the editor will see its own editions in
> black, editor #2's in blue, editor #3's in red, and so on...
This really is a dealbreaker for me. Having to insert comments
interrupts the flow too much. It should be trivial to assign a color
to each editor and toggle the colors on/off. I can't get my users to
adopt google docs, and this is the *only* reason.
> it would be amazing if there was an option so that an user could
> select his default color for editing a document, so that i can easily
> see what has been edited by me and what has been edited by other and
> also identify WHO did it.
> the page could also give default colors for editors, without them
> having to select, so that the editor will see its own editions in
> black, editor #2's in blue, editor #3's in red, and so on...
You could simply have everyone use his own background colours (agreed
beforehand) and then, when the doc is finalised, highlight all of it
and apply white background. Not ideal, but better than nothing
maybe...
> This really is a dealbreaker for me. Having to insert comments
> interrupts the flow too much. It should be trivial to assign a color
> to each editor and toggle the colors on/off. I can't get my users to
> adopt google docs, and this is the *only* reason.
> On Aug 22, 9:07 pm, mwgobetti wrote:
> > it would be amazing if there was an option so that an user could
> > select his default color for editing a document, so that i can easily
> > see what has been edited by me and what has been edited by other and
> > also identify WHO did it.
> > the page could also give default colors for editors, without them
> > having to select, so that the editor will see its own editions in
> > black, editor #2's in blue, editor #3's in red, and so on...
The problem is that the background color reverts to white as soon as
the user moves the cursor to a different point in the text, then they
need to re-select the color. At the very least, we need a way to make
the user's choice of text or background color "stick" until the user
toggles it off. (Unless I'm missing something?)
> You could simply have everyone use his own background colours (agreed
> beforehand) and then, when the doc is finalised, highlight all of it
> and apply white background. Not ideal, but better than nothing
> maybe...
> On Sep 18, 2:54 pm, bluebarry wrote:
> > This really is a dealbreaker for me. Having to insert comments
> > interrupts the flow too much. It should be trivial to assign a color
> > to each editor and toggle the colors on/off. I can't get my users to
> > adopt google docs, and this is the *only* reason.
> > On Aug 22, 9:07 pm, mwgobetti wrote:
> > > it would be amazing if there was an option so that an user could
> > > select his default color for editing a document, so that i can easily
> > > see what has been edited by me and what has been edited by other and
> > > also identify WHO did it.
> > > the page could also give default colors for editors, without them
> > > having to select, so that the editor will see its own editions in
> > > black, editor #2's in blue, editor #3's in red, and so on...
> The problem is that the background color reverts to white as soon as
> the user moves the cursor to a different point in the text, then they
> need to re-select the color. At the very least, we need a way to make
> the user's choice of text or background color "stick" until the user
> toggles it off. (Unless I'm missing something?)
> On Sep 18, 12:57 pm, Gill wrote:
> > You could simply have everyone use his own background colours (agreed
> > beforehand) and then, when the doc is finalised, highlight all of it
> > and apply white background. Not ideal, but better than nothing
> > maybe...
> > On Sep 18, 2:54 pm, bluebarry wrote:
> > > This really is a dealbreaker for me. Having to insert comments
> > > interrupts the flow too much. It should be trivial to assign a color
> > > to each editor and toggle the colors on/off. I can't get my users to
> > > adopt google docs, and this is the *only* reason.
> > > On Aug 22, 9:07 pm, mwgobetti wrote:
> > > > it would be amazing if there was an option so that an user could
> > > > select his default color for editing a document, so that i can easily
> > > > see what has been edited by me and what has been edited by other and
> > > > also identify WHO did it.
> > > > the page could also give default colors for editors, without them
> > > > having to select, so that the editor will see its own editions in
> > > > black, editor #2's in blue, editor #3's in red, and so on...
