Twayne, Sorry to see you go. Others on this list pose comments as complicated as yours, and I (mostly lurking here) learn from their questions and the responses from users more capable and informed than I. Frankly, although my usage is mostly fairly simple documents and spreadsheets, I have not found anything that Open Office does not do better for me than similar microsoft products ( which I used to use and have lots of files still in those formats.) I also see in 3.0 beta that some changes appear to incorporate features requested by various people on this list. I hope to improve 3.0 beta by reporting that when I try to save a file it hangs, with the message that (open office writer is unresponsive.) If I close the unresponsive program it will recover the file when next started, but again, I cannot save it. I can cut from the 3.0 beta file and paste to 2.4 stable, which lives on this Vista machine, and wonder if I have made some error in installing 3.0. Does 2.4 need to be uninstalled, perhaps? Would reinstalling 3.0 beta help or hurt? Best wishes, Carl
Twayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am disappointed enough in the recent round of Issue closures and "won't fix" actions that you may ignore this original posting. I've tried hard to use OOo and wasted quite a bit of time trying to help, but I'm going to have to go back to MS Office and PDF Creator since it's the only reliable way of producing the files I need. Thus, I won't be using OOo enough to learn anything more of any value to anyone. A pretty good disappointing effort. Best of luck to all, and Regards, Twayne > KUDOS off the top of my head and at first glance. The first two > things I noticed that help an awful lot are: > -- a Desktop Icon; I didn't have to fart around creating a new > shortcut to open office. Con: I sort of wish it had been a folder > with all the component icons in it, e.g. writer, calc, base, etc., > but this will do fine! > > -- Image Anchors; They are now more direct to access and no longer > necessary to remember to go to Layout, Advanced to find them and set > them. > > -- No improvement on the automagical movement of images within tables > or interspersed throughout a large document, BUT ... > BETA 3.0 shows these problem images to be anchored to "character", > which is incorrect, BUT it explains some of the strange movements I > see happening! > > Ver 2.4 shows them as vertically anchored to paragraph, as does Word, > the original creator of these files. Where Version 3 BETA is showing > them as anchored to a CHARACTER! > Although 3.o seems to be in error, if 3.0 were CORRECT, it would > much easier explain the odd movements of images, even why some of > them leave a table cell, I think. The anchor seems to move from a > character inside the table cell to a character not IN the table, thus > moving the image out of the table. And in other cases, well, who > knows what character the anchor might get moved to? > Based on a Word file as the origin, and differing anchor info between > 2.4 and 3.0, this would seem like a conversion problem more than > anything else. To me, at least. > Interestingly enough, when an image becomes anchored to a character, > there is no anchor to show; this explains why I -thought- the anchor > wasn't being displayed in some of the movements; it wasn't. I > never anchor an image to a character so none of the character anchors > originated with me; it has to be OOo. Word, BTW doesn't show an > anchor if I manually anchor something to a character either, BTW. But > like I said, that's not something I do. I use either Page or, > more often, Paragraph for the anchor, period. > Also, when an image is anchored to a character, when you select it, > it does not appear selected even though it is. The cursor remains in > the paragraph you last had it in and the image never gets handles or > any other indicators of being selected. > I never knew you could anchor to a character until 3.0 showed me. > Like I said, 2.4 doesn't indicate that; it indicates paragraph, but > I'm suspecting it's the 2.4 anchor that's incorrectly determined and > actually the anchors have been changed to characters, as 3.0 is now > clealy showing. > An easy way to see these differences is to open a problem file that > demonstrates unplanned image movement in OOo, then open it once each > in 2.4 and 3.0, put them all on the screen at once, and check them > out. > > I don't think I should be muddying up the Issue Reports with this sort > of thing since it's so general and vague in nature: Perhaps someone > here can make sense of it, duplicate it, and decide better how to > phrase it for a good, inclusive Issue. > My original Issue on this is 88989 . > > Q: Does OOo provide any mechanism that would allow me to search & > replace 'anchors to character' to 'anchors to paragraph'? Don't think > I've ever seen anything like that. > > Regards, > > Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
