Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

2019-09-17 Thread Nancy Shiffrin
you can't get out of proofreading for yourself with your own eyes -- also it's really good to get others to proofread for you -- every time I think I've caught everything my husband finds one more for me AI doesn't excuse you from thought -- FLIGHT new poems forthcoming from Finishing Line

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

2019-09-17 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, DCollins wrote: > I happened to run an .odt document through another spell checker and it > turned up a couple of clear typos that Open Office did not catch. > ... > I notice that if I type just the two words directly into a fresh doc with > nothing else, OpenOffice does

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

2019-09-17 Thread Nancy Shiffrin
I'm a writer. I have office 4.1.6 now. I work with spellcheck enabled. Even so, I don't catch every typo. There's nothing like proofreading with your own eyes and hands and brain. This comes at the end of a project, after everything is in. On 9/17/2019 4:53 PM, David Belina wrote: My

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

2019-09-17 Thread David Belina
My version of  OpenOffice (4.1.6) flags both of the mis-spelled words and suggests the proper spelling.  Srock install/update of OpenOffice to the latest version). Dave On September 17, 2019 at 5:49:19 PM, DCollins (dc...@davesbrain.ca) wrote: helping the people they serve get their needs met

dictionary fails to find obvious typos

2019-09-17 Thread DCollins
I happened to run an .odt document through another spell checker and it turned up a couple of clear typos that Open Office did not catch. I've pared the doc down to just a few dozen words and pasted them into a fresh doc to rule out any potential weirdness in my original doc, and it still

Re: downloading and install open office

2019-09-17 Thread Richard Beeston
Are you using the same user ID and password in the different computers? Cheers Richard Beeston -Original Message- From: s Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 8:58 AM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: downloading and install open office hi i have been having problems with

downloading and install open office

2019-09-17 Thread s
hi i have been having problems with this version 4.1.6. i am the only one that uses several computers. Every time i went to install it says account already exists and then it takes the install away. i would like to know why i cannot install this or update or even get the extensions to open ods

Re: BASE questions

2019-09-17 Thread Dave Fisher
> On Sep 17, 2019, at 12:35 AM, 許哲崇 wrote: > > Do you think you need a NEW Lotus123 ? That’s ironic because Lotus123 eventually became Symphony which was built on OpenOffice and then IBM donated code to Apache OpenOffice which LibreOffice consumed. Regards, Dave > > Mike 於 2019年7月29日 週一

Re: BASE questions

2019-09-17 Thread 許哲崇
Do you think you need a NEW Lotus123 ? Mike 於 2019年7月29日 週一 下午4:03寫道: > I'm new to Base and discovering just how ignorant I am despite 40 years > working in IT. I have created a simple data base with three tables. > When trying to create relationships and forms it's become obvious that > some