Forwarding reply. On Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:03 AM [GMT+1=CET], [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
