Re: Fwd: Is Open Office Going Away?

2019-09-18 Thread GUSTAVO Ayala
Perhaps the question and discussion should focus not on LO or OO but on Google Docs and its applicability as a substitute to the great product, free of charge, Open Office. > On September 18, 2019 at 12:39 PM "W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof." > mailto:robert.funn...@mcgill.ca > wrote: > > > I

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2019-09-18 Thread Lei Zhang (Axelerate LLC)
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Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

2019-09-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:00 18/09/2019 -0400, Dave Collins wrote: A few usability issues there. But not, I suggest, when you have fully learned to use the product. True. Although part of the definition of usability is that a product's basic features should support new users. Agreed. But users do need to be p

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

2019-09-18 Thread DCollins
> I can see how to set the language to "[None]" in OpenOffice, but not to "Unknown". Indeed. I am not able to set it back to unknown now that I've changed it. > I'm guessing that you originally pasted this text into an OpenOffice document from some other application. This is surely what happ

Re: Fwd: Is Open Office Going Away?

2019-09-18 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
Is there any more substance to the claim about malware in LO than there is to the claim about OO going away? I doubt it. - Robert On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, JD wrote: > That wind you got was just some people's brain fart because they are > the club of a derivative software called libre' office. This

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

2019-09-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:09 18/09/2019 -0400, Dave Collins wrote: Thanks. The language was the problem. I didn't realize that it defaulted to 'unknown' ... I don't think it does. Indeed, I can see how to set the language to "[None]" in OpenOffice, but not to "Unknown". So I'm guessing that you originally pasted

Re: Fwd: Is Open Office Going Away?

2019-09-18 Thread Matthias Seidel
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Re: Fwd: Is Open Office Going Away?

2019-09-18 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
I was not aware of any rumors that it was going away, but if it does, have them download LibreOffice. They have the same root. ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On Sep 18, 2019, 11:23 AM, at 11:23 AM, Mike Kuldayev wrote: >Hello, > >I'm working in an online school and our teachers frequently encourage >th

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

2019-09-18 Thread DCollins
Thanks. The language was the problem. I didn't realize that it defaulted to 'unknown' (what does that do? Is it able to find some errors? Or none? < rhetorical question). A few usability issues there. Once I set it to English it found them. Noted for future reference. Dave Collins On 2019-09

Re: Fwd: Is Open Office Going Away?

2019-09-18 Thread JD
That wind you got was just some people's brain fart because they are the club of a derivative software called libre' office. This club wants to discourage people from using OpenOffice and junp onto the band wagon of Libre' Office, which many programmers on the inside have intimated to me privately

Fwd: Is Open Office Going Away?

2019-09-18 Thread Mike Kuldayev
Hello, I'm working in an online school and our teachers frequently encourage their students to download Open Office for free from your homepage. Recently, I've got wind that Open Office might be going away and/or students won't be able to download it for free in the near future. So, I just wanted