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| 221749 | 2004-03-11 20:34:00 | What a bloody great idea! Never thought to do that. I will change my ways. Cheers Tim |
Allblack (4982) | ||
| 221750 | 2004-03-11 22:10:00 | > My new PC os giving me grief, this site as an example. Rather unfortunate. :-( > Internet causes problems as well, as does the horrid OpenOffice programme that Quay Computers promised would work as well as Microsoft Word does - and it doesn't. Open Office does work fine though I haven't used it enough to say it works as well as Word does. Other people here might say that it does. If you have just got this computer from a shop I would advise you to take it straight back and ask them to make it work properly. A brand new computer should not have any problems. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 221751 | 2004-03-11 22:43:00 | Whoa Billy, that advice is physic man. How did you know I was going to ask about the very problem of proto-posts disappearing??? Spooky. :O |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 221752 | 2004-03-11 22:53:00 | I doubt that OpenOffice is failing. Ive used it for years. Personally, I'd nail it down to User Error. Another thing to try would be a different browser. Ive found that when IE or Explorer crashes, it usually likes to take the other down with it ;-) Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 221753 | 2004-03-11 23:03:00 | We psychics are always one step ahead of the game Winston :D Doesn't work for Lotto, horse racing, financial speculation in general or in matrimonial matters unfortunately. :( Cheers Billy 8-{) Also means I know exactly what WTF will post next ]:) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 221754 | 2004-03-11 23:36:00 | Thanks Susan, but as Chillinglysilent said so diplomatically, it's probably not the computer, but the User and my expectations. I don't consider the shop to be at fault, but I did expect everything work in a more user-friendly manner. The fact that OpenOffice will not accept a word.doc without making a mess of it worries me somewhat, and has been believing it's functionality was mis-represented to me. However, before I go down that route, I will investigate the software further and see if I can fix problem myself. Cheers Tim |
Allblack (4982) | ||
| 221755 | 2004-03-11 23:52:00 | > The fact that OpenOffice will not accept a word . doc without making a mess of it worries me somewhat, and has been believing it's functionality was mis-represented to me . OK, well I have just opened several very heavily formatted documents in Open Office that were created and edited in various versions of Word and all displayed exactly as they do in their native program . I did not try editing them as I am uncertain whether your problem lies with that or with the display . Regarding Chill's comment about using another browser you could try that suggestion to see if your internet problems disappear and let us know the results of that . > I don't consider the shop to be at fault, but I did expect everything work in a more user-friendly manner . Unless you have been fiddling (and who doesn't :p) then it should all be user-friendly right out of the box . :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 221756 | 2004-03-11 23:53:00 | Hi Allblack OpenOffice is a little bit different to MS Word and just needs some practice. You can download a comprehensive user manual for Writer from here (ooodocs.sourceforge.net) - OpenOffice.org Writer Beginner's Guide (PDF) Just remember to save all writer (word) documents as either Rich Text Format (.rtf) which is universally acceptable by any writing program, or as a .doc (MS format). A heavily formatted MS Word doc might lose some formatting when it is opened in OOo. If you are a power user of MS Word, you might find it easier to buy MS Word (or MS Office), however I use OOo at home and have very successfully created slideshows using Impress that were played back with the MS Powerpoint program - no one could tell that I had used OOo to create it. Regarding your troubles posting here and at other forums, you might want to check IE security levels and cookie handling. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 221757 | 2004-03-12 01:10:00 | Thanks Jen C and Susan. The problem is not so much getting the document out, it's coming in that's the worry. I typed a two-page Word doc at work, and e-mailed it home to my beloved OpenOffice. What I got at the other end was four and a half pages of gobbledegook. It had picked up stuff en-route and added it to my document (stuff that I don't have on my PC coz it's new and "clean"), and it was all in various colours and all the text had been strikethrough-ed. I tried to change the doc to word, but couldn't find where to do it. I'm sure it's there somewhere, just got to keep looking. Cheers Tim |
Allblack (4982) | ||
| 221758 | 2004-03-12 01:47:00 | That's not Office's fault. If you sent a .DOC file as the content of an email, rather than as an attachment to an email, the mail system did its "best" with a binary file. Email is designed for TEXT. Nice simple plain text. No problems. Word .DOC files aren't plain simple text. They are full of excreta, so have to be dealt with as binary files. Binary is difficult and messy. If the email system is fed binary and thinks it's text, Bad Things Happen. As you have seen. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
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