Greg Bulmash wrote:
Open Office and I were getting along swimmingly, then two things
happened that made me dump it.
Search and Replace: Word has support for "special characters" (i.e. line
breaks, paragraph breaks, page breaks, etc.) When you're trying to
convert an e-mail full of broekn lines back into paragraphs, via a
search and replace, it's simple with Word, impossible with Open Office.
Wasn't enough to make me dump OO.o (as I could do it in an external
text editor).
From a different post:
Search and replace
More options
Regular expression
See the help to check this option...
Mail Merge: With Microsoft it's simple. Create a table or spreadsheet,
use the first row as headers, and then just punch in the data in the
following rows. The headers are taken as field names when you do a mail
merge. If they don't match a predefined set, no problem. It's easy to
plug in your custom fields.
<http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors/Mail-Merge.pdf>
Great kudos on how far OO.o has come. It's *there* for many business
functions, but for others... I'll check it out again at 2.1.
If you do need to switch back, you should also file issues so that these
things can try to be fixed. List your problems and make suggestions for
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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