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<p class="Paragraph">When you bring your document in which others have noted their changes back together again, you can accept or reject the changes individually or all together.</p>
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<p class="P2">If you have put multiple copies of the document in circulation, first of all you merge these into one document (see <help:embedded Id="67926" Eid="redlining_docmerge" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>).</p>
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<p class="P2">Open the document and choose <span class="T1">Edit - Changes - Accept or Reject</span>. The <span class="T1">Accept or Reject Changes</span> dialog appears.</p>
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<p class="P2">Select a change on the <span class="T1">List</span> tab. The change is selected and displayed in the document and you can now make your decision with one of the dialog buttons.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">If one author has changed another author's change, you will see the changes hierarchically arranged with a plus sign for opening up the hierarchy.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If the list of changes is too long, you can switch to the <span class="T1">Filter</span> tab in the dialog and specify that you only want to see the changes of certain authors, or only the changes of the last day, or that you want the list to be restricted in some other way.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">You can also filter them by the descriptions. Wildcards (as with <help:link Id="65852" Eid="platzhalter" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">regular expressions in the Find & Replace dialog</help:link>) are permitted when entering the filter.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Text document changes that have not yet been accepted are displayed in the list. Changes that have been accepted are removed from the list and appear in the text without any further marking.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Spreadsheet changes that have been accepted are combined in the list in a single entry, so that you can continue to see which changes have already been accepted.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Color-coded entries inform you about the result of the filter that is set. Entries in black can be accepted or rejected and match the filter criteria. Entries in blue do not themselves match the filter criteria, but have subentries that are included by the filter. Gray entries cannot be accepted or rejected and do not match the filter criterion. Green entries do match the filter but in spite of this cannot be accepted or rejected.</p>
