To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=97412 Issue #|97412 Summary|Writer considered harmful Component|Word processor Version|OOo 3.0 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|formatting Assigned to|writerneedsconfirm Reported by|jfarmer99
------- Additional comments from [email protected] Fri Dec 19 02:26:37 +0000 2008 ------- This is a rant and a suggestion. At work we use Microsoft Word. The program likes to "suggest" things by doing them. Start typing a numbered list and it attempts to autoformat it for you. Which makes the program unusable. I just end up using Wordpad instead as I know I won't be able to win the fight with autoformatting. OpenOffice has the exact same issue. When I start typing in Writer, at some point it's going to start autoformatting. Then it's going to mess up the formatting so bad I won't be able to recover it. It just happened. I typed a 1) and a paragraph after it. It started autoformatting it. It indented it. Now I can't continue as there is no way to undo that. It makes the program unusable. My next steps? Three: 1) yum remove openoffice.org-writer 2) yum install abiword 3) paste text from openoffice.org writer into gedit to fix format, paste into Abiword. 3) file this bug. Seriously. If you can't provide one big option in the Tools/Options area, one which affects all of OpenOffice, the point of the option being "don't you ever start formatting my documents," then it's game over. I won't use your program as it's unusable. I'm not alone. Will Abiword reach that point? Probably. Then I'll use Gedit. Do not autoformat. It's the most despised "option" in MS Word and you've just copied it. Making your programs unusable. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
