On Wednesday 23 March 2005 13:43, + godzimu wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > Well, well, > I really do not know what to think of Open Office from my specific > angle?....First of all no answer on wherever forum or else to my problem. > I loaded Oo 6 months ago with the intention to use it extensively > starting from its word processor facility...all went fine until I bought > an Asus 716 PDA runnning under MS pocket PC mobile Office. Why not Palm? > because I am studying intensively languages (in particular Russian) > which as you know calls for a cyrillic script and the work I am doing > didn't seem to be easily feasible under Palm OS.
> I had started working on several documents with Oo..When I decided to > try syncing the PDA and the PC all Oo documents were refused and the > conversion into straight Word didn't work to start with. I have got an Ok, this is obviously the first thing you should try to get fixed. What version of OpenOffice.org are you using ? 1.1.4 is the latest stable version and there is a beta of what will become version 2.0 available to from http://download.openoffice.org > PC running under Windows XP and all other non Oodocuments would sync no > problem... > After trying several ways I got fed up and decided to unload Oo and to > forget it although I like it.. > But I had a remaining document rather lengthy in Russian and french > edited with Oo and I have to work on it now. So I just reloaded Oo and > thought OK, no problem I'll convert my doc into a Word doc and from Word > into Word pocket...Un fortunately I just cannot do it. the conversion > gives me a lot of ????? in place of Russian...and that's into Word from > the start..( my Word is OK for the international scripts and I am > writing a lot of Russian with it) of course no way then to try and sync > to the pocket as a result This sounds like some missing fonts. As I know nothing of Russian fonts you may want to ask on http://ru.openoffice.org/ -> "Mailing Lists". > That means I have to start this lengthy work under Word all over > again...Unless there is a solution which I have no time to discover > after hours of chats and mails and adjustments to my great > disappointment I'll have to definitely abandon the idea of working with > Oo ;-(( Shall I unload it again? Ok, this attitude will definitely not get you much help. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
