On Tue March 14 2006 19:41, + Alan Colton wrote: > [ MODERATED ] ******************** > > 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. Nothing should have changed. Perhaps you do not have the same personal settings between both versions of OpenOffice.org. have a look at your settings in Tools -> Options
> 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. Dictionaries are really part of the installation rather than settings., You can install a new dictionary with "File" -> "Wizard" -> "Install Dictionary". > 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. > > 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. Sore, there are many documents available which helps to explain how to use OpenOffice.org effectively. Have a look at http://documentation.openoffice.org Please reply to [email protected] only -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
