Re: Open Office Writer

2020-08-18 Thread mick howe
irst langrurage… > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: mick howe > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 7:56 PM > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Open Office Writer > > My first thought is that the 'dictionary' you are using is corrupt. Search > your system ba

Re: Open Office Writer

2020-08-18 Thread mick howe
My first thought is that the 'dictionary' you are using is corrupt. Search your system backups for the version you were using before the upgrade and restore it. Because no one ever does back ups these days the alternative would be to reinstall openoffice. mick in glen innes 2370 On Wed, 19 Aug

Re: Dear Users and fellow writers. Free advice required.

2020-08-18 Thread mick howe
notepad did open any file way back in the long ago, if it was plain text you could read it, if it was encrypted or an application's data file it would appear as the hex values of the data, that is a mass of garbage. so long as you don't try to save it in notepad it MIGHT be recoverable by an

Re: Lost work

2020-08-16 Thread mick howe
years ago Mikroslop released MSWord, among its many features was "Auto-save", its function was to automatically save your work every 20 minutes. When it got to the 6th automatic save it would totally destroy your work, the file you were editing AND all the automatic backups, as described in this

add formula to cell in openoffice spreadsheet

2020-08-09 Thread mick howe
been battling to use a simple formula in a spreadsheet to cause each cell 'Fx' to equal the contents of cell 'Ex' of the same row multiplied by the contents of cell 'Dx'. I have done this in MS Office v2 to v6 and 97, Star Office on both OS/2 & various Linux versions and libreoffice until version