Mathias Bauer wrote:
Hi Doug,
Doug Koup wrote:
When they went to save for the first time, they informed Open
Office they wanted to use the .doc format, because it was the only one they
recognized. What scared them into switching was the very large, very
confusing message telling them that making this choice would cause them to
lose data.
But this is the truth! By using the Word format for your Writer
documents you can indeed lose data if you used some features in Writer
that Word is not able to handle. Users expect to be told about this and
so we do.
There's an easy way to switch the warning off but we must show it by
default. You can either configure this manually or install an OOo
extension (for a single or all users of an installation) that does it
for you. If you wanted to know more about the extension and how to
install it easily please let me know.
Ciao,
Mathias
It seems to me that if you choose M$ formats for the default, then these
features should simply be greyed out. and/or OOo should double save,
saving in both doc and ODF every time a save is done.
