André Wyrwa wrote:
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Hi,
Robin Laing wrote:
bob lyskowski wrote:
One of my biggest pet peeves with OOo and pretty much every other
program I have ever used is compatibility. I have run into some
compatability isues with OOo and MS, both Excell and Word. But then
I have run into compatability issues between different machines
running the same version of Word, but different updates, so that issue
I will ignore here.
My issue is this: Why does a program allow you to do things that are
not consistent with the particular type of document? An extreme case
is if you pull up a Text document, you are allowed to Bold, change
font size, add special characters, formatting etc. Then, of course,
when you save it all the special things are gone and sometimes the
formatting is so inconsistent with txt that real information is
lost. To me, I beleive that if you open something in text, you
should only be allowed to do text type formatting. if you open it up
a Word Document in OOo you should only be allowed to do Word kind of
formatting. If you open up an old version of an Excell document in a
new version of Excell, you should not be allowed to do formatting that
will not be recognized by the old version of Excell. Etc.
I expect these kinds of inconsistencies from MS, but NOT from OOo. 8^)
Bob
I disagree.
If I open something in text, I may want to save it as odf or pdf with
changes that are acceptable. I may also open a spreadsheet that I want
to export as text which will lose sheets and formatting.
When I run a program, I want all the features available. When I save it
is when I make a decision on what I can afford to lose.
If I want to edit a text document, I don't use OOo, I use emacs or a
text editor. OOo is just overkill.
I agree on this one.
However, Bob has a bit of a point and an improvement of the situation
could be to extend the notice that pops up when you save in a different
format that would cause formatting losses. It would be much more useful,
if the dialog would give you a list of the actual formattings in your
document that cannot be saved in the selected file format.
André.
I think that the best way for this to work, would be for the font and
formatting options not available in the format you opened to all be
greyed out, and a notice come on screen that in order to be able to use
any of these, you must save as ODF and then re-open the file.
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