Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-04 Thread Peter Rodwell
Quoting TomW: To use Ctrl F as the shortcut for 'Alternate dialog Find Replace for Writer', do the following: Open 'Alternate dialog Find Replace for Writer' Click on 'Batch ', the Batch Manager Click on 'Key Shortcuts' In the top dropdown box, select 'Altsearch - dialog'. At the bottom of

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-03 Thread Peter Rodwell
Quoting Graham Lauder: There is an extension which is pretty much a compulsory install on any OOo instance l use and it does what you ask here. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/search/node/altsearch Thanks! It does indeed do what I want (and a lot more). Now if I can just

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-03 Thread TomW
On 2010-11-03 17:11, Peter Rodwell wrote: Quoting Graham Lauder: There is an extension which is pretty much a compulsory install on any OOo instance l use and it does what you ask here. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/search/node/altsearch Thanks! It does indeed do what I

[tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread T. J. Brumfield
There were several old, often commented on, and often requested bug fixes and features that didn't receive much attention or weren't resolved with OOo over the years. For those who may not be aware of the reasons for the shift/fork, or for those who don't care about politics with software,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Peter Rodwell
I have only today joined this discussion so I don't know whether this has already been discussed or not. There are two reasons why I have just paid money to upgrade to Office 2010 instead of switching to OO/LO: 1. Complete file compatibility. I frequently handle documents with very complex

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Robert Parker
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Peter Rodwell pe...@intorg.org wrote: I have only today joined this discussion so I don't know whether this has already been discussed or not. There are two reasons why I have just paid money to upgrade to Office 2010 instead of switching to OO/LO: Did

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Frank Esposito
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Peter Rodwell pe...@intorg.org wrote: I have only today joined this discussion so I don't know whether this has already been discussed or not. There are two reasons why I have just paid money to upgrade to Office 2010 instead of switching to OO/LO: 1.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Robert Parker
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Peter Rodwell pe...@intorg.org wrote: If this stupid comment is typical of this forum, then I'm out of here. I don't think we need Microsoft shills anyway. -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Peter Rodwell
Hi Cor: 2. Search and replace. I work with large documents, often 400+ pages. [snip] OK, that is easy to handle with a trick as user, but possibly also an relative easy fix (1)? As I said, when you have to do this constantly, dozens of times a day, it does become a real issue. I would

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Robert Derman
T. J. Brumfield wrote: There were several old, often commented on, and often requested bug fixes and features that didn't receive much attention or weren't resolved with OOo over the years. For those who may not be aware of the reasons for the shift/fork, or for those who don't care about

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Robert Derman
Peter Rodwell wrote: I have only today joined this discussion so I don't know whether this has already been discussed or not. There are two reasons why I have just paid money to upgrade to Office 2010 instead of switching to OO/LO: 1. Complete file compatibility. I frequently handle

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Peter Rodwell
Quoting Robert Derman: On a separate subject, to Peter above, I can see where your profession certainly justifies the expenditure for MS Office, I would hope however that you at least downloaded and installed OOo/LO in addition, since it costs little or nothing and might at times prove

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-11-02 11:48 AM, Peter Rodwell wrote: There are two reasons why I have just paid money to upgrade to Office 2010 instead of switching to OO/LO: 1. Complete file compatibility. I frequently handle documents with very complex formatting. These come from my clients, all of whom use MS

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-11-02 12:05 PM, Frank Esposito wrote: File compatibility should be a priority, in the very least opening and saving MSO files with full compatibility There will *never* be 100% compatibility... like I said earlier, even Microsoft doesn't achieve that between different versions of its

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-11-02 12:07 PM, Robert Parker wrote: On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Peter Rodwell pe...@intorg.org wrote: If this stupid comment is typical of this forum, then I'm out of here. I don't think we need Microsoft shills anyway. Robert - if you don't have anything constructive to say,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread T. J. Brumfield
True. However, the good news is that the 2007 and 2010 formats are largely similar and are XML based. The old formats were binary and kept changing. Since the format isn't changing as much, and the new format is easier to reverse-engineer, now is a good opportunity for OOo/LibO to catch up and

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Peter Rodwell
Quoting Charles Marcus: There will *never* be 100% compatibility... like I said earlier, even Microsoft doesn't achieve that between different versions of its own programs. Oddly, I can't offhand remember having any backwards compatibility problems. I have had very occasional problems loading

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Paolo Pozzan
In data martedì 02 novembre 2010 16:48:46, Peter Rodwell ha scritto: I have only today joined this discussion so I don't know whether this has already been discussed or not. There are two reasons why I have just paid money to upgrade to Office 2010 instead of switching to OO/LO: 1.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread Graham Lauder
On Wednesday 03 Nov 2010 06:11:02 Peter Rodwell wrote: Hi Cor: 2. Search and replace. I work with large documents, often 400+ pages. [snip] OK, that is easy to handle with a trick as user, but possibly also an relative easy fix (1)? As I said, when you have to do this constantly,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 03:48 PM, Peter Rodwell wrote: 1. Complete file compatibility. I frequently handle documents with very complex formatting. Funny thing here. I get better compatibility using OOo and LibO, than I did when I was using MSO. I still