bob lyskowski wrote:
One of my biggest pet peeves with OOo and pretty much every other
program I have ever used is compatibility. I have run into some
compatability isues with OOo and MS, both Excell and Word. But then I
have run into compatability issues between different machines running
the same version of Word, but different updates, so that issue I will
ignore here.
My issue is this: Why does a program allow you to do things that are
not consistent with the particular type of document? An extreme case
is if you pull up a Text document, you are allowed to Bold, change font
size, add special characters, formatting etc. Then, of course, when
you save it all the special things are gone and sometimes the formatting
is so inconsistent with txt that real information is lost. To me, I
beleive that if you open something in text, you should only be allowed
to do text type formatting. if you open it up a Word Document in OOo
you should only be allowed to do Word kind of formatting. If you open
up an old version of an Excell document in a new version of Excell, you
should not be allowed to do formatting that will not be recognized by
the old version of Excell. Etc.
I expect these kinds of inconsistencies from MS, but NOT from OOo. 8^)
Bob
I disagree.
If I open something in text, I may want to save it as odf or pdf with
changes that are acceptable. I may also open a spreadsheet that I want
to export as text which will lose sheets and formatting.
When I run a program, I want all the features available. When I save it
is when I make a decision on what I can afford to lose.
If I want to edit a text document, I don't use OOo, I use emacs or a
text editor. OOo is just overkill.
--
Robin Laing
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