On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:13:17 -0500 "Buck" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been using this version for as long as it has been on the street. > When Version 4.1.0 appeared, I upgraded to that with disastrous results and > after much troubleshooting and a lot of emails on this forum with no > results, I went back to version 4.0.1. > > Oh, by the way, I do use the Windows 7 platform which apparently is not > compatible with AOO 4.0 and above. > > I have been working on a translation of scripture for over fifteen years. In > the beginning of my efforts I used MS Word but went to OpenOffice 3 because > of formatting problems with Word. Now 4.0.1 has started to display those > same problems, only more severe. All of my formatting, such as fonts, > columns, and justification just do whatever they want to do no matter how > many times I correct them. When I try to open the odt file in MS Word I get > the message that the file is corrupt and cannot be salvaged. Thanks Apache. > > Happily I did save it in other retrievable formats so all of my work was not > lost. > > So this is goodbye to Apache and their piece of junk OpenOffice v4 and > above. Also it is goodbye to this useless forum. I will be unsubscribed as > soon as I get another email from some poor user looking for help that he > will never get. > > Clarence "Buck" Castleberry Are you using Direct Formatting (a la MS Office) or are you using Styles, as one should in OpenOffice? I have been using OpenOffice with styles since 2007 for a number of extended works (100KB words, typically) and have never lost formatting. -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
