On 31 Aug 2007, at 03:01, James Greenidge wrote:
Greetings OOo Engineers!
So far so good on the beta testing of OOo SRC680 m226 PPC X11 en-US
which has been remarkably stable for me and six other people here
(save for the persist "Error saving the document. Error in writing
sub-document styles.xml" when you create and save a document with
some character styles and a graphic image). We love the souped-up
Options panels and improved text renderings and animated gifs run
swell. We'd like to suggestion a tiny menu bar window of live
running word/character counts and a "tri-save" backup option
(master copy, backup copy, and a third bkup out to iDisk or flash
drive. Cherry on top: "Compare Versions" mode would be nice to
search-compare all previous versions of a doc to find which ones
most matches the current one, in effect allowing one to see a
"history" of alterations of a doc. Currently you can't customize a
toolbar which allows one to use elements of the View menu as
commands such as turning off and on the formating toolbar.
You can already compare documents. "Edit" > "Compare Document". I
don't know the ins and outs for usage there should be documentation
on this feature online at the documentation project
http://documentation.openoffice.org/
On the Backup see "Tools" > "Options" > "Load/Save" > "General",
where there is an option for a backup. Also look at "OpenOffice.org"
> "Paths" for the location of the saving.
Much ado requests for making it much easier for non-techies to do
wildcard searches. Some miss finding spaces before or after
paragraph returns without some techie input how. Can there be a
more simple and less techie method of implementing wildcard
searches? How about extending wildcard search-matches within docs
on a disk? Another neat feature would be to import a plain text
document and have the ability to find a word/paragraph and replace
that word/paragraph with the same word/paragraph plus a paragraph
style or character style or ruler setting. That ability alone would
do wonders in easily creating screen script formatted documents out
of plain text documents!
There may well be documentation already on this. In the find/search
dialog, there is a "more options..." button, which you may well find
it has the features that you are looking for.
Shaun
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