Bug 112374

Summary: Compare Document doesn't seem to do anything
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Dave Lovelace <davelovelace>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: dgp-mail, serval2412, timur
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.2.7.2 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: Windows (All)   
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Description Dave Lovelace 2017-09-13 14:35:29 UTC
Description:
I have saved previous versions of my document.  The help says I should be able to compare one of those to my present, open version, but this does not work.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Edit document
2.Save document (or Save As)
3.Make changes in document
4.Choose Edit -> Track Changes -> Compare Document
5.Choose saved file to compare
6.Put in password when prompted and click "Open"



Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.  I am simply returned to the document I am editing.  The help on this says, "The contents of the selected document are marked as deletions in the dialog that opens."  No dialog opens.

Expected Results:
Some kind of dialog opens.  Help says, "If you want, you can insert the contents of the selected file into the current document by selecting the relevant deleted entries, clicking Reject, and then clicking Insert."  I don't fully know how this is supposed to work, since I haven't ever gotten it to work.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Windows (All)
OS is 64bit: no
Builds ID: LibreOffice 5.2.7.2


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.79 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Julien Nabet 2017-09-13 14:42:15 UTC
5.2 branch is EOL.
Could you give a try with last stable LO version 5.3.6 or even brand new 5.4.1?
Comment 2 Timur 2017-09-13 17:01:48 UTC
"Password" points probably to bug 41493. Please search before submitting a bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41493 ***