Alan Colton wrote:
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Hi, i've written you a email similar earier today this is a continuation...
I've opened up some old spreadsheats. when i opened the *.SXC file, agin it
opened in my older ver 1.1.0. So I also manualy opened it in ver 2.0.1 and it
looks different, most notablely is the mulicell heading which shows in full in
the earlier ver , but not in the new ver. This also happens in print preview.
Also in the new ver it says Read Only in the window title at the top in
brackets. Why? Again it seems like poor backward compatability. I haven't tried
Word Pro Documents yet -- am I in for surprises too.
See if this is a problem with several files rather than one only.
Generally there is no problem with the new version reading older
OpenOffice.org files
Also the spelling red underlines arn't showing - maybe that's just in setup,
but it did say in the setup process that it would import my settings from the
old ver to the new.
Now I have set check spelling as yoou type in Options, even though it also has a tool button for this which i tried turning on & off. No Change. Also Theosaurrus is greyed out. I am using Australian English - set in options. (I had a similar prob. with the earlier ver which took me ages to fix, but as the program has changes it all looks different - I cant get into language from Tools| Language as it only has hyphenation) Also when i do a manual spell check it always says complete even when I put in deliberate mistakes.
Your old settings should be mostly preserved, but your dictionaries and
thesauruses would not be copied over, as some of them might have been
replaced by newer versions. Use File -> Wizards -> Install new
dictionaries... to get the most recent versions for any dictionaries and
thesauruses that you want that you don't have.
Also, in version 2 language is an attribute of the text, and different
portions of your text may have different language attributes. Make sure,
once you have your Australian modules installed, that your styles have
the proper language settings. You will find this in each paragraph and
character style definition under the "Font" tab.
Can I download a PDF or document explaining all this. The new formats compared
to the old. Why? and how to fix it , or work with this. I do use old files
quite a bit.
The central site covering the Oasis OpenDocument format is
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office . This
is an independent open format intended for general use as a common
format throughout the computer world, supported by a number of dp
companies and organizations. See also
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?ID=2105 and
http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2006-03-07.php
You can download the OpenDocument standard, and various other Oasis
standards from http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#opendocumentv1.0
The specification for the OpenOffice.org XML file format used for
version 1 releases of OpenOffice.org is available at
http://xml.openoffice.org/
Again, normally there are no problems with the new versions reading and
writing the older file types.
Jallan
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