Re: I'm ready to give up on Open Office

2013-10-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
My simplest recomendation is to keep a stable and a 'bleeding edge' version. That way you can use a stable for really long, complex documents and a bleeding edge for simpler documents. I did something like that for my browsers as well as having different flavors. Event today I keep Caligra,

Re: I'm ready to give up on Open Office

2013-10-06 Thread Ian Lynch
...and of course keep a backup history. Save regularly under different version names so that if something goes wrong you can find out where and revert to a version that is not too far from the current version. This is really a sensible strategy whatever software you are using if the work is

Re: I'm ready to give up on Open Office

2013-10-06 Thread Ian Lynch
Don't think he is subscribed to the list so he won't see your message. On 5 October 2013 23:29, Vladislav Stevanovic stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Bob, I am just another user of Oo like you. Your letter shows me that you really love Oo but, problems push you in that way that

Re: I'm ready to give up on Open Office

2013-10-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: My simplest recomendation is to keep a stable and a 'bleeding edge' version. That way you can use a stable for really long, complex documents and a bleeding edge for simpler documents. This is reasonable advice in

I'm ready to give up on Open Office

2013-10-05 Thread Bob Lee
I've been using Open Office for my personal use for years. Ever since upgrading to 4.0, I've been having more problems with the program randomly crashing than all of the years before. And each time it crashes, I have to rebuild half the data and all of the formatting because the recovery

Re: I'm ready to give up on Open Office

2013-10-05 Thread Vladislav Stevanovic
Hello Bob, I am just another user of Oo like you. Your letter shows me that you really love Oo but, problems push you in that way that your are now disappointed. And I had some bad experiences in my one business with Oo in the past, but I learned one rule: If there is some bug and makes me