On 08/05/07, Robert Derman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Sounds like something for a configuration set, or 'case'
been talking about that sort of thing, and should file a RFE
--
Chris Monahan
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