Group:
This thank-you is to all who responded.
I'm grateful for all of the help.
This is an active group, to judge by the number of responses that my simple
(er, naïve; maybe, stupid as well) query received.
You are, also, an informative, spirited (er, maybe, contentious as well) group.
Most of you realized how little I knew about LO. I still know little, though
all of you have helped to push away, a good distance, the darkness that had
engulfed me.
First: I solved the problem of putting a WordPad document into LO so that I
could benefit from its vastly superior features. I don't know what I'd been
doing incorrectly, but I now go directly to my desktop LO icon to work on my
novel.
(By the way, at the risk of being told, again, that I don't know what I'm doing
- I don't - I found that when backing up my desktop to an external hard drive,
LO didn't copy to it as the other programs did; I had to back it up on its
own.)
On the main matter: There is no way, if I understand all of you, to have the
program save my changes without my answering Yes to the question when exiting a
document.
I'd been looking for an automatic, periodic save without exiting; while
autosave does that, it's only for the purpose of retrieving the document in
case of a malfunction. (Do I have that right? No?)
Even having the option set to saving every five minutes is of no help if I then
exit without saying Yes to a save. . . . And, as one poster put it, that's a
good thing.
It seems that hitting control+s does do the kind of 'internal' save that I
seek; I just have to remember to do it periodically. Thanks to the poster who
recommended that. (As I say, I know so little about all of this.)
To the poster who said that I was wrong, that I didn't join LO because it's not
a membership: Yes, I did. In order to take part in this forum, I had to sign up.
I'm glad that I did. Long may you all, in your various ways of using and
explaining LO, reign.
Peter Pullman
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:06:34 -0700
> From: dennistheti...@chez-vrolet.net
> To: peterpull...@hotmail.com; users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] WordPad
>
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 07:07:53 -0700 (MST)
> peterpullman <peterpull...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I tried to put the contents of a WordPad document in a file that I had
> > created using Libre Office.
> >
> > I joined Libre because I would like to have its AutoSave function.
> >
> > When I exited and then re-entered this Libre file, I saw that AutoSave
> > hadn't worked.
>
> I need to clarify this. If I am correct in reading this, the following
> steps took place:
>
> * Created file in Libreoffice; saved it in a format that Wordpad
> would understand; worked on it; closed file
> * Opened file in Wordpad, noted the lack of changes, maybe worked on it,
> closed file
>
> Am I correct? If not, please outline what happened. If I'm correct,
> please note how long you worked on the file in LibreOffice.
>
> Thanks,
> -Dennis
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