On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:25:40 -0500 Robert Derman wrote: > André Wyrwa wrote: > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Or a [yes] [no] requester asking if you want to allow extra formatting options to be turned on that cannot be saved back to a text file. But the save warning saying "Formatting will be lost unless... " works for most of us. -- Michael Those that can, do; those that can't, teach. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
