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Robin Laing wrote: > 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. I agree on this one. However, Bob has a bit of a point and an improvement of the situation could be to extend the notice that pops up when you save in a different format that would cause formatting losses. It would be much more useful, if the dialog would give you a list of the actual formattings in your document that cannot be saved in the selected file format. André. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFE0WC2EOp8fsnyxsQRArn9AJ0ZMBDAbEirjhzmYSNFjZViOUR5EgCgoXp8 gaJVcEdN7HDGxVH2+nSOZ8Q= =Jyv3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
