a query from a newbie

Hi, Just bought a new computer (after 11 years with a mac mini). It's another mac, the air book or is it a book air, anyway, I'm trying to make do without Microsoftware, WORD and EXCEL, and I've gone and downloaded Apache's offering. I've got the __OpenOffice.org Writer for Microsoft

Re: a query from a newbie

> On Feb 3, 2016, at 16:59, Nicholas Barnett wrote: > > WORD uses ^ to code unprintable marks like ^l, linefeed, ^t tab, ^p paragraph > and so on. > > Why not add a table with all the ^ codes and what to do in Writer to get the > same effect? There must be a way to

Re: a query from a newbie

Reply inline below: > On Feb 3, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Nicholas Barnett wrote: > > Hi, > > Just bought a new computer (after 11 years with a mac mini). It's another > mac, the air book or is it a book air, anyway, I'm trying to make do without > Microsoftware, WORD and

Re: a query from a newbie

At 21:59 03/02/2016 +, Nicholas Barnett wrote: Just bought a new computer ... . It's another mac, ... I've got the __OpenOffice.org Writer for Microsoft Word users:__ to help me on my way, but I'm disappointed to find no mention of ^ in it. I can't speak to why this is or isn't done ...