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On Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:03 AM [GMT+1=CET], [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL 
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> Harold, your reply was rude and insulting!
> 
> fyi, on W2000P, there is NO option to use your sainted "drop-down"
> list.  Nooooo, just 3 lousy buttons - "up one level", "create new
> directory" and "default directory".... which give the user NO freedom
> to find ANY file of their own CHOOSING!!   
> 
> As I said, there is NO option to find ANY file of the user's OWN
> choosing, only files that OO deigns to allow the user to "choose"!  
> That is NOT choice, it SUX and is NO improvement at all!!  
> 
> Next time you can't be POLITE and SYMPATHETIC (which is your
> ***DUTY*** when you take it upon yourself to answer anyone's emails
> about the product you love), DON'T BOTHER REPLYING AT ALL!!!  
> 
> Your NAZI-like response is BENEATH OO standards I am sure!!
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Oct 14, 2006 8:20 PM
>> To: OpenOfficeUsers <[email protected]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: [users] the new Insert Picture option sux!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Saturday, October 14, 2006 9:02 PM [GMT+1=CET],
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>> 
>>> I have been promoting OO for years now ... but will cease to do so
>>> if the Microsoft-mentality behind the change in finding pictures to
>>> insert into an OO document is not corrected in the very next
>>> version! How stupid it is that the Find File option will NOT show
>>> EVERY single folder and file available, be it picture or not!!  Now
>>> OO requires that I place ALL my pictures in folders that IT
>>> approves of?!?!?!  I don't think so!!!
>>> 
>>> This is an INSULT to all users everywhere!!  It implies we can't
>>> find our own pictures to insert, but OO has to do it for us.  HOW
>>> RUDE!! 
>>> 
>>> Thank God I have my previous version so I can UNinstall the current
>>> and REinstall the previous!
>>> 
>>> This level of stupidity is something I have LONG come to expect from
>>> Microsoft, but NOT from OO!!
>>> 
>>> Sign me,
>>> One VERY disappointed user!
>> First of all, you don't bother to say which Operating System you are
>> using - Windows - which version? UNIX - which version? MAC - which
>> version? Linux - which version?  
>> Second you don't bother to say which version of OOo you are using.
>> I am surprised that I find myself answering such a rude and
>> unhelpful e-mail. 
>> 
>> Under the Insert>Picture>From File menu, OOo 2.0.4 (the latest
>> version) and 2.0.3 (the previous version) on Win XP Pro/SP2 offers a
>> standard Windows explorer type file browser. At the top, labelled
>> "Look in:", is a drop down list that lets you navigate all your
>> drives and folders. To the right of this are buttons that let you
>> (a) go up a level, (b) create a new folder and (c) specify how you
>> want the display to look - thumbnails, details etc. as per usual in
>> Windows. At the bottom of the browser window, among other things, is
>> a drop down list that lets you select what sort of files you want
>> displayed; try "all formats".         
>> 
>> So, not only are you rude and unhelpful but you are also wrong. Some
>> rudeness and unhelpfulness is possibly tolerable if you were making
>> a valid point. In your case it's totally intolerable. I suggest that
>> you go and pay the USD 500 or whatever it costs to buy MS Office,
>> and another USD 500 every couple of years or so for new versions.
>> That way you are at least partially compensating the people to whom
>> you are being rude and unhelpful.      
>> 
>> Harold Fuchs
>> London, England
>> Please note that these are my personal views. I do not work for and
>> am not affiliated to Sun or any OpenOffice organisation.

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