On 29/07/09 19:33, Camille Poirier wrote:
Hi there, In case nobody has mentioned, your website is incredibly difficult to use. You have to be an expert just to query. After an hour of frustration I finally decided to register and send a question. Now it won't accept my name and password.
What did you try to register for? You don't need to register to download or use the software; you don't need to register to read or download the on-line documentation; and, as you have discovered, you don't need to register to get support via this e-mail list. As far as I know the only thing you need to register for is the forum and there is a mechanism for contacting its administrator if you have problems with passwords. Oh, the web site I mean is <www.openoffice.org>.
My question: In a spreadsheet, I cannot undo. If I accidentally enter information into a cell that already has information, I cannot undo and retrieve the original contents. It is lost forever. I have to exit without saving changes just to open up again to find out what used to be there. Why have an undo button that doesn't work? Makes working with OO very unnerving. Is it because I am using a Mac?
Ah. Mac. Don't know about Macs but I can't imagine it's different, in this respect anyway, from Windows or Linux (both of which I use regularly). The Undo function is available under the Edit menu. You can put its button on the Tool bar by using View>Toolbars>Customise>Standard and then scrolling down to the Undo button whose icon is a yellow curved arrow with its head pointing to the left. Select the icon and click Add. You can move the icon left/right on the toolbar by clicking the up/down arrow next to the list of icons. When you are happy, click OK. There's also a Redo function whose icon is a green curved arrow with its head pointing to the right. Same procedure if you want.
This is the smallest of the problems experienced. OpenOffice.org makes Microsoft look really good. I prefer Excel any day. Thank you for your time. Yours truly, Camille
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