[plug] OO troubles

[James Elliott]

Hi Mark

I am also trying to use OOo exclusively and it upsets me when I am really
under pressure to beat a time limit and have to resort to Excel or Word just
to make sure I don't lose it all.

I have a blank Purchase Order which I open, rename, save fill in, send off,
and save again.  Unfortunately OOo fills in every blank line with $0.00
which makes the whole PO hard to read.  I have gone to FORMAT / PAGE / SHEET
and un-ticked the "print zeros" check box, and saved it with this unchecked
.... but every time I bring it up again, the zero's box is checked and the
printout is full of zeros.

I have had problems similar to yours in using a combination of Writer and
Draw to make some attractive pamphlets.  The job can look great at the end
of the sessions, when you save it, but later when you open it up again some
of the fancy formatting may have gone awry.

I also tried saving it as a Word.doc to send to someone else.  When I tested
this by opening it in Word a lot of the fancy formatting was gone or
garbled.  It seems than simple text documents and spreadsheets can be saved
as Word and Excel without detriment, but maybe not complex ones.

James Elliott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Saxon" <marks at omninet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:23 PM
Subject: [plug] OO troubles


> Good to here OO is improving rapidly.  I use it exclusively now.
>  I have a few problems with SO to OO files though
> notably *.sdc SO 5.2  files opened in an final  build (I think) of OO 1.0.
> I got this version of OO from the APC July CD set. No down loads
> for me sadly.
>
> I have two large spread sheets opened with this binary which are now
> corrupted seemingly irrevocably.
> Oddly (ironically)  *.xls files seem fine it has only mangled it own
> native file format.
> I have reinstalled every verion of SO and OO I have laying around trying
> to open them with no joy.  Has any one else had this problem and did you
> resolve it?
>
> I'm now using 1.0.1 with MD 9 which is just dandy. Still takes a dickens
> of a time to
> open though.
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> Mark
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