Re: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish (or not)

2016-03-13 Thread James Plante
Guys, I agree with most of you. But let’s not feed the troll, shall we? Gunny, good suggestion :-) Jim > On Mar 13, 2016, at 3:49 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: > > On 3/13/2016 8:40 AM, Darren Myers wrote: >> Max >> I am a developer in BMC / People soft applications, 32 years and 4 months >> over

Re: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish (or not)

2016-03-13 Thread Dale Erwin
On 3/13/2016 8:40 AM, Darren Myers wrote: Max I am a developer in BMC / People soft applications, 32 years and 4 months overall experience.. I shouldn't have to delete a profile and re-create it and go through that pain in order to get the most basic function working. Open office need to

Re: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish (or not)

2016-03-13 Thread Dave Fisher
Darren, OpenOffice has a long, long history. Not as long as you or me or many others here have been programming. I think you might be surprised at the number of decades of some of the generous contributors to AOO. If you have the relevant C++ experience, the source code and build instructions

Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish

2016-03-13 Thread Darren Myers
Hello Can someone please pass this comment on to the relevant incompetent developer who created openoffice writer.. It has the a really obvious problem with the program... IT HAS NO BLOODY SPELL CHECK! Seriously I ask you this, what IDIOT created a doc writer without the most fundam

RE: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish (or not)

2016-03-13 Thread Darren Myers
Max I am a developer in BMC / People soft applications, 32 years and 4 months overall experience.. I shouldn't have to delete a profile and re-create it and go through that pain in order to get the most basic function working. Open office need to fix this MAJOR problem. It was an issue fo

Re: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish (or not)

2016-03-13 Thread Max Merbald
Hello Darren, of course it's got a spell check. And the spell check works. I've been using OpenOffice for years and I never had that problem. If something on OpenOffice doesn't work, delete the folder "OpenOffice" in [user]/appdata/roaming and restart OpenOffice. No need to be rude, by the wa

Re: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish (or not)

2016-03-13 Thread Max Merbald
Darren, even a software developer (which you claim to be) may occasionally have to repair a software installation, and that can happen with MS products too. not just with OpenOffice. Deleting the Openoffice folder in AppData doesn't take long and isn't a pain. It's done in 10 seconds. And don'

Re: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish

2016-03-13 Thread TN Patriot
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:28:36 + Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:14:43 + > Darren Myers wrote: > > > Hello > > > > Can someone please pass this comment on to the relevant incompetent > > developer who created openoffice writer.. > > It has the a really obvious problem wi

Re: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish

2016-03-13 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:14:43 + Darren Myers wrote: > Hello > > Can someone please pass this comment on to the relevant incompetent developer > who created openoffice writer.. > > It has the a really obvious problem with the program... > > IT HAS NO BLOODY SPELL CHECK! > > Serio