Thanks, Naomi, for your perspective.
-----Original Message----- From: Naomi Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jun 27, 2005 1:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Doucment Icon.? I suspect that the main problem is Microsoft's habit of making file extensions invisible by default. I hate this setting with a passion, because it causes so many problems and far more confusion than it fixes. The whole point of file extensions, as far as I'm aware, was always to indicate what FORMAT the file is in. And as far as I'm aware, the icon has always (in Windows at least) been used simply to show which program would OPEN the file by default. When file extensions are hidden, people are more likely to confuse the default program and the format of the file. James, all I can recommend is to make sure file extensions are turned ON in Windows :-/ - Naomi >Hello, Everyone on our Forum, regarding Anthony's Post. Thanks, Dan, for >trying to answer his problem, but I'm not sure the WORD/OOo interchangeability >problems are being addressed. Does anyone see the similarities to my >problem/post a couple days ago? ... i.e. the conversion factors from OOo to >Word (PDF, .SXW, .DOC, WordPad, etc.) ... or am I totally off base? I'm quite >fine if anyone tells me I'm missing the point here (at least that would help >me move on to other possible solutions). > >I appreciated the posts attempting to resolve my particular problem in this >regard, but they didn't help me get a solution ... either because I'm dumb (to >which I readily admit without shame), or there's something wrong with OOo 2 >Beta. I didn't have these problems with 1.1.4. > >Since I couldn't resolve the problem in OOo 2 (1.9 beta), today I tried to >re-install the stable version 1.1.4. to see if I'm totally wacko about this >problem. Well, that didn't work either ... It's been so long since I >installed OOo at all, I'm having problems even trying to install the 1.1.4 too >... Gaw! I can't imagine what the Newbies are going through. > >So, if there are any "Experts" on OOo out there, please continue to try >helping us out with this Microsoft Word versus Open Office conversion. I >thought that's what this whole project is about. > >Thanks. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
