On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 19:58 -0400, Geoff Mehl wrote: > I was intrigued with Open Office as a great open source alternative to > MSWord, but am very disappointed in the product (Writer). Almost always a > macro is built on a series of search/replace options, and a crafty user > occasionally relies on some artificial coding (like, triple tabs) to set up > a sequence of search replace.
Those are some pretty basic macros you've got there, and you're doing things the wrong way. You should insert fields into your document, and update them accordingly, not do a search & replace. That's daft. > Writer fails miserably. Something failed miserably. > Open Office is a good idea, but kind of like MacWrite for Juniors. OK. Take your bat and ball and go home. I won't loose any sleep over it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
