You sound to be a valuable asset to this group; may you continue to enjoy LO.
Now, to attempt to answer your further questions, see below - From: Peter Pullman <peterpull...@hotmail.com> Date: Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 9:02 AM Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] WordPad To: Dennis Carr <dennistheti...@chez-vrolet.net>, " users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 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. [the only stupid question is the un-asked one] You are, also, an informative, spirited (er, maybe, contentious as well) group. [yes, I'm one of the ones who seem to irk some of the debators; I apologize to you, a new subscriber, for having to see some of that list-bashing] 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. [well done] (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.) [that's true - and the reason I don't bother with these so-called back-up programs, rather I save individual files to external HDs; if you, as I, merely use this machine as a 'glorified typewriter' then my system saves time, space on these HDs, & makes the files easily accessible from the HDs] 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. [If you set the program to automatically save, it will do so every minute or so which frustrates me - it stops the program, breaking my train of thought, in order to save it ;-( so I save any file after typing just what I like and always before closing the file, placing it in whatever folder I choose] 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?) [no, but it saves into whatever folder it chooses, not where it can be retrieved easily] 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. [yes, I would suggest never exiting without saving; unless you've done nothing to the file since it automatically saved] 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. [again, my apologies for any of this list-bashing you saw and/or received; ignore it if you can ;-) ] I'm glad that I did. Long may you all, in your various ways of using and explaining LO, reign. Peter Pullman -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted