Chris Quirke (new address) wrote:
Chris Quirke, system builder and freelance consumer PC tech.
Interested in OOO as free replacement for MS Office for my clients.
It's great to be able to fiddle with unit types (inches vs. cm vs. miles)
within each application. But it sucks that one HAS To do this, and
that OOO is too dumb to read what the OS-wide default units are.
For example, I typically set up PCs as if they were in default-land (US)
then set units to metric within Windows' regional detail. Everything that
is installed should read that selection and default to metric, but OOO
fails to do this. To fix this, I have to wade through a number of dialogs,
often two per OOO component, and all of which are different (so much
for the consistency of a suite vs. collection of loose apps); if it's
View in
one app, it may be General in another.
Installing and setting up OOO becomes so tedious I'm tempted to skip it.
Just doing a quick, I think you are doing more work than it is worth.
Each component has the setting in the same place.
*Tools > Options > Text Document > General*
*Tools > Options > Spreadsheet > General*
*Tools > Options > Presentation > General*
*Tools > Options > Draw > General*
This can be advantageous. Very rarely do I ever want Writer to be in
anything but inches, but I may be doing some drawing that requires
metric units, now I can have different things in different apps.
I can see where it might also be a pain.
I didn't know Windows had settings in it. Perhaps it would be neat if
OOo could read those. Perhaps you could file an issue and request an
enhancement.
The best way to have problems such as this evaluated is to file an
issue. Issued are used to both report defects in the software and to
propose that new features be added. For instructions on how to file an
issue please see:
<http://openoffice.peschtra.com/tips/ooott_web_iz_file_issue.html>
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It is important that you file
the issue to ensure reproducibility with your examples.
HTH,
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