On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 08:45 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 15:02 +0200, Uwe Fischer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Eric Beversluis wrote: > > > My OpenOffice Calc (2.0.2) is displaying an annoying trait (which also > > > arose in a previous version): > > > > > > I have a spreadsheet with 'AutoCorrect--Capitalize first letter of every > > > sentence' turned off. But every once in a while it reverts back to doing > > > auto-capitalization, and the little M$Office-like creature appears in > > > the lower right corner. > > > > > > Why does it start the AutoCorrect capitalization again? I'm not doing > > > anything--just reopening the document and there it is. How can I prevent > > > this behavior? > > > > two possible answers come to my mind: > > > > - this is a per-user setting. Do you login with different accounts? Then > > you must setup OOo as the other user again > No. > > > > - capitalization of the first letter in a spreadsheet can also occur as > > AutoInput feature: choose Tools - Cell contents - AutoInput to switch > > this on and off. > I can see how that can happen--have seen the forum suggestions that > AutoInput should be over-ridable without having to turn it off. But that > wouldn't explain why the AutoCorrect setting for capitalizing first word > would have been changed, would it? > > > > Regards > > Uwe > I'm trying to reproduce the effect and I can't. I thought maybe it had > to do with OpenOffice doing a restore on this document when I opened it > this morning--it seems to do that sometimes, even if the document that > was open when the computer shut down (without separately closing > OpenOffice) didn't have any unsaved changes. But when I tried it just > now, with some unsaved changes in the spreadsheet, it didn't do a > restore on reopening but rather opened two copies of the spreadsheet, > one with the unsaved changes and one that appeared to be the last saved > version. > > (Running Fedore Core 4 and OO2.0.2) > > So maybe a bigger issue is that OOo doesn't seem to be consistent in how > it behaves under various circumstances. Sometimes it wants to do a > restore when opening and sometimes not. Sometimes it opens two copies of > a file. And shouldn't it be prompting me whether I want to save changes > when it's shutting down and there's a file open with unsaved changes? >
On the off chance you are using whatever OOo comes via up2date, I would like to say I found that the RedHat version is _NOT_ up to the level of the downloadable version from www.openoffice.org. I found the rh release very buggy and have replaced it. Perhaps this is part of the problem. -- 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]
