Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/09/2013 01:56 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: A few days ago, I asked on the dev list why AOO does not support writing in the OOXML formats. I received some very nice replies. Some people have valid reasons why supporting OOXML is a bad idea, but I expect that this support will creep

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-08 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
ntao.com - Original Message - From: "Andrew Douglas Pitonyak" To: Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:52 PM Subject: Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 - Issue 255 On 01/07/2013 06:50 PM, zentao wrote: Not asking it to be an MS Office clone. I have used MS Office a LOT.

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-08 Thread zentao.com
rom: "Andrew Douglas Pitonyak" To: Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:52 PM Subject: Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 - Issue 255 On 01/07/2013 06:50 PM, zentao wrote: Not asking it to be an MS Office clone. I have used MS Office a LOT. Having tried OO, I can honestly say that

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-07 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/07/2013 06:50 PM, zentao wrote: Not asking it to be an MS Office clone. I have used MS Office a LOT. Having tried OO, I can honestly say that OO is more user intuitive and an absolute joy to work in. The issue isn't having an MS Office clone--heaven forbid, unless you happen to like self

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-07 Thread zentao
Not asking it to be an MS Office clone. I have used MS Office a LOT. Having tried OO, I can honestly say that OO is more user intuitive and an absolute joy to work in. The issue isn't having an MS Office clone--heaven forbid, unless you happen to like self-torture--but compatibility...which OO

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-07 Thread zentao
-- From: Hagar Delest [mailto:hagar.del...@laposte.net] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 3:10 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 - Issue 255 Personally, I've had to go through 5 or 6 recovery processes in a row before it stopped crashing. It w

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-07 Thread John Hart
On 1/7/2013 3:05 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: AOO is not a MS Office clone. If you want to work in .doc, then use MS Office. Their file format has never been designed to be compatible with anything else than MS Office. The MS Office file formats have been reverse engineered. If you find another appl

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-07 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 07/01/2013 22:52, Maurice Howe a écrit : Helllooo, out there! We can keep telling folks to redo their bleeding profile. How dumb is that! Fix it so that's never required, fer Kroist sake! Microsoft never insisted we do that. Of course it's dumb. It's a major problem. But the code has been

RE: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-07 Thread Maurice Howe
aurice D. Howe General MacArthur Honor Guard Assn 616 Lacey Drive Endwell, NY 13760 607-754-0469 maur...@stny.rr.com -Original Message- From: Hagar Delest [mailto:hagar.del...@laposte.net] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 3:10 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: users Digest 5 Jan

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-07 Thread Hagar Delest
Personally, I've had to go through 5 or 6 recovery processes in a row before it stopped crashing. It was under Windows XP. Since then, no problem. Hagar Le 07/01/2013 09:25, Rod Lockwood a écrit : On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:18:25 -0500, wrote: Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 manage the use

Re: users Digest 5 Jan 2013 17:18:25 -0000 Issue 255

2013-01-07 Thread Rod Lockwood
On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:18:25 -0500, wrote: Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 manage the user profile differently than previous versions. The old user profile is automatically converted so that users can keep their extensions and settings. In a minority of cases, especially with highly cu