Thank you for the quick response, but the mouse is an "I" on the screen that usually disappears when I start typing, but in OOo, it hangs around in the middle of the screen, or wherever I left the mouse. Another user wrote back that there is no way to get rid of it at the present time.
Greg -----Original Message----- From: G. Roderick Singleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 1:40 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Greg Knight Subject: Re: [users] A few thoughts On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 00:24 -0600, Greg Knight wrote: > Hello there! > > I have been using Open Office writer for only a short period of time and > enjoy using it, but there were a few issues I thought were minor but still > important to me. The first is the spell/ grammatical check. I know there is > a spell check, but is there a grammatical check due out for writer? Grammar checking is in the works. See http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/grammar.html > Is there > a place for spell checker updates? I would gess at some point you added this spelling to one or more of the dictionaries you use > I know when I type hell4o, it doesn't > show it as a misspelled word. Do you have Language Settings > Writing Aids > Options > Check words with numbers checked (enabled)? I suspect not or you would have found that Spellcheck would, indeed, find this mis-spelling. > My second thought was if I were to migrate 40 > users to Open Office from Word, (wash my mouth for even suggesting this) is > there a way to dumb down Writer to match the inferior quality of Word so > that people can transparently save their documents as Word docs without > risking formatting issues? In a word, no. The export filters are the result of some very hard reverse engineering because MS chooses not to publish their API. Nonetheless, export to most MS formats is estimated to offer between 96% and 98% accurate translation. I suggest that you wean your users. > I thought of this since there are so many people > in the world who have taken on Word and not Open Office... yet. Ah but OOo exports to PDF for which most have a reader or can get one for free. e.g. Xpdf or even AcroRead. > And lastly, > is there a way that I can make that pesky mouse disappear when I am typing? > It tends to get in the way of me reading the screen. > WHAT MOUSE? Please explain. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
