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.
