Hi J. Myers,
J. Myers schrieb:
I installed the Open Office 4.1 thinking I was doing a good thing ---
just adding a processing program that was cheaper than Word.
OpenOffice is not a clone of Word and does not intend to be a clone of Word.
Now
I regret it and I am more than angry. I am furious. Before loading
Open Office 4.1, I had and was using Star Writer (from Sun). I was
using that particular program because it let me do things "outside
the box".
Go back to the recovery point set by your operating system. If Star
Writer does not work out-of-the-box then, use the "repair" feature or
the StarWriter installation. And as you have bought it, you should have
got a CD, and therefore you can install it again.
If you have a lot of .sdw files, then the version 4.1 of OpenOffice is
not suitable for you. Use a portable version of OpenOffice 3.4. That
does not make any changes to your computer and it is able to read and
write .sdw files. The support of .sdw files has been removed in
OpenOffice 4.
If you will have a look at new features of OpenOffice 4.1 without making
changes to the registry of your operating system, then you can do an
"administrative" installation of the OpenOffice.
For using a recovery point, read the help of your operating system or
ask a user group according your OS. If you need help in doing things
with OpenOffice, we will try to assist you. Please write, which
operating system do you use, and what do you want to achieve. Perhaps
before you actual do it?
I am a writer and I had hundreds of manuscript pages stored
onto my computer. In addition to that there were many records
and account pages stored in Star Writer. I don't use a template
for my account pages. I do my own so that I can get more on
one page. Some of my documents were written for children's
books and did not fit any normal template because the words
went around some of the illustrations. Not any more. I will need
to make corrections on hundreds of documents and that will take
me many hours and many days.
The installation of OpenOffice does not change anything in that files
unless you save and therefore you overwrite the files. You can still
read and edit the files with StarWriter.
When I installed Open Office my Star Writer program completely
disappeared out of my computer.
What makes you thing so? I bet, it is still there in folder program and
you can still use it. Only some connection between file name extension
and application might have changed.
Who gave you the right to destroy
my property that I paid for? And when I called up my records,
they had gone crazy. The lines and numbers were scattered all over
to fit some Open Office template, I presume. What was one page is
now 5 pages and all my formatting is gone.
To describe my emotions toward Open Office as RAGE is putting it
mildly. The Open Office 3.1 tolerated Star Writer. I had installed
both and used both. Why did you change it? Why is Open Office 4.1 so
intolerant and oppressive? Also, why can't Open Office offer the
option of NO AUTOMATIC SETTINGS or FUNCTIONS?
It does. If you need help in doing an "administrative" installation,
then ask here or in a forum.
People like me
who have their own ideas should be able to work outside the box
if they want to, but still be able to forward the program or store the
program as an Open Office document.
Calm done. We can surely help you, to get a satisfying working environment.
Kind regards
Regina
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