I should pay more attention. I just found where I have the choice of opening a file directly in OOo. Duh. (I never do that, so I had forgotten that exists). The file opens in read-only, but when I saved it, there was no problem, nothing moved or went weird. I'm using OOo3.2.1 on Ubuntu, however.
I'll go fire up WinXP and see what happens. --Jean -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [authors] Re: Problems saving a copy to edit 2 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:21:05 +1000 I am confused by the sequence you describe. I didn't realise you could open a file in OOo before you have saved it after downloading it (which is why I wondered about the browser). Try downloading and saving the file, THEN open the saved file in OOo. I just tried that (getting a new copy of the file from the website), to see if it was corrupted (sometimes that happens), but it seems to be fine. --Jean On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 10:27 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Hubby just tried downloading, opening the file and saving it on his omputer, > same operating system but earlir version of OOo - 3.0! and the same thing > happened. > Sharon > Quoting Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]>: > > > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 19:19 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > > Have retracted the chapter and am now trying to save a copy to edit. > > Problem > > > is, as soon as I hit save everything moves - pictures unsnap text wraps > > > mid > > word > > > various figure names and words highlighted in grey! Help - is it my > > > problem > > or > > > the docs > > > > Sharon, I'm having trouble visualising just what you are doing. Have you > > downloaded the chapter ODT file to your computer, opened it in OOo, and > > then tried to save under another name? Or, when you go to download the > > chapter ODT file, does it open in your browser and then you try to save > > it from there? If the latter, that could be the problem. Save the file > > directly from the website to your computer. > > > > You will find that some words are highlighted in grey. That is normal, > > because the grey marks things like index entries, fields, and other > > features. > > > > Without looking at the file, I don't know what is causing things to > > move. There are various possibilities. Sometimes pictures move if people > > have not anchored them properly. Text may go strange if you don't have > > the correct font on your computer; OOo then substitutes another font. I > > have not seen this happen when saving; usually it happens when opening a > > file. > > > > Please remind me: what operating system and version of OOo are you > > using? > > > > --Jean > > -- > > Jean Hollis Weber > > Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
