On 28 Jun 2008 at 22:05, Richard Detwiler wrote: .... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here are some problems with Open Office: ... > > I finally pushed "Discard" and was able to start the program. Experiments > > with a sample document showed the following: the document, which had been > > saved in Word with a 14 point font, opened in Open Office Writer with a > > 10 point font. When I restored it to the original 14 point font, Open > > Office Writer saw that as a modification of the document. > > > > Well, when you change the font from 10 point to 14 point, that IS a > modification of the document, isn't it? So of course, it's going to ask > you if you want to save the change. > > > This episode indicates to me that Open Office Writer is altogether > > unacceptable as an alternative to Word.
To put that the other way round, it looks to me that you are implying that under Word, you can change something like font size, close without saving, receive no warning, and lose the pretty formatting you've just spent the morning on. That would to me be altogether unacceptable as an alternative to the way OOo safeguards one's work. I hope even MS would not publish such a latent disaster area. You seem to have a number of issues apparently more related to your own understanding of standard ways of doing things, rather than real shortcomings in OOo itself. Which, incidentally, would seem to include some elementary manners - when quoting verbatim significant parts of someone else's contribution, most people would at the very least indicate that they are quoting and that it is not their own work. -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
