On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 08:59 -0500, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > 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.
Nope--brand new FC4 install but I did not install their OO. Installed downloaded version from OOo site. EB > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
