Why in the hell do they have to use RTF? Is it some anti-virus thing? I mean, if they're using Word, use the DOC format, for crying out loud!
Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Linux Phrasebook @ http://www.granneman.com/books "Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" ---Epicurus On Feb 7, 2009, at 11:21 AM, RandyJess wrote: > Hi guys- > > This conversation started when I mentioned to my brother Tim that I > was having issues seeing comments in OO. My wife is required to > submit papers to her professors in .rtf format and then they markup > the papers in MS Word and then send them back in the .rtf format. > When I open up the paper in OO 3.0 it does not display the comments > and the Navigator says that there are no comments in the paper. If > I open it up in word, all of the comments display. Tim opened the > file up in Word and saved it as a .doc and now I can see all the > comments in OO. Unfortunately that is not a great work around for > me since I do not have Word on any of my machines at home. Any ideas? > > Randy > > Scott Granneman wrote: >> >> That's why you should upgrade to 3 ASAP - notes are vastly improved. >> >> http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html#Improved_Notes_Feature_in_Writer >> >> Scott >> -- >> R. Scott Granneman >> [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com >> Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications >> My new book: Linux Phrasebook @ http://www.granneman.com/books >> >> "The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody." >> ---Dorothy Sayers >> >> On Feb 7, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Robert Citek wrote: >> >> >>> Apparently, that's the only way to view a note in 2.4: double- >>> click on >>> the yellow box. >>> >>> Regards, >>> - Robert >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Tim and Lisa Beckendorf >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I don't have any option under the view tab for notes. I'm using >>>> version 2.4. >>>> I can see the yellow rectangle indicating that there is a note >>>> there and can >>>> double click on it to edit the note but it doesn't otherwise >>>> display. Am I >>>> missing something? >>>> >> >> >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
