2009/8/7 Harold Fuchs <[email protected]> > On 07/08/09 17:41, Harold Fuchs wrote: > >> On 07/08/09 17:29, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:35:10 +0100 >>> "Gordon" <[email protected]> dijo: >>> >>> >>> >>>> "Web Kracked" <[email protected]> wrote in message >>>> news:[email protected]... >>>> >>>> >>>>> I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 on one of my machines. >>>>> >>>>> Is there any thing I should know about dealing with >>>>> the Ubuntu version of OOo? >>>>> >>>>> I want to start setting it up with all the extensions >>>>> I have on my Vista laptop, and such. >>>>> >>>>> This is my first step to converting all but one machine to Linux. >>>>> Next will be an HP Athlon64 laptop that is running 32-bit XP/pro >>>>> that will be given a 64-bit OS so I can number crunch BOINC >>>>> projects faster. Also that will be my default Linux machine. >>>>> >>>>> This Vista one will go to Win7 when it comes out, and working properly. >>>>> >>>>> But now I need all the help with Ubuntu 9 and OOo on Linux as I can >>>>> get. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> As far as I'm aware, the only major difference between OO on Windows and >>>> OO in Ubuntu is that the Ubuntu version won't access Email client address >>>> books to use for mail merge, labels etc. If you don't use this function, >>>> then there's no real differences AFAIK... >>>> >>> >>> There is one other difference. In the version from OOo the File > Save >>> option is grayed out when the file has not been altered. If you type so >>> much as a space it then becomes available. Ditto for Ctrl-s - if you >>> hit Ctrl-s and the document has not been changed it does not resave the >>> document, saving time and disk use. >>> >>> In the Ubuntu version it is always available, so you can't tell if you >>> need to save the document or not. It's not a show-stopper, but I liked >>> the fact that I didn't have to continually save the document when I had >>> made no changes. >>> >> Hmm. Not true in my OOo 3.1 on Ubuntu 9.04. The Save option greys out >> after a save and only reappears after a change. >> >> Whoops. Sorry. Forgot I'd installed the non-Ubuntu version.
I rected to that as well, Howard, but fortunately I listed to the voice that said «think before writing» and recalled that I had installed (several) versions direct from OOo and that it was their behaviour I remembered, thus saving myself from yet another public solecism.... Henri
