[PLUG] Struggling with OpenOffice

Carla Schroder pluglist at bratgrrl.com
Thu Aug 8 12:22:17 UTC 2002


On Thursday 08 August 2002 06:29 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > Try turning off "URL Recognition" in Auto-Correct- Tools -
> > Autocorrect/autoformat - Options
> >
> > Open Office will do many many things, if you know how, the online help is
> > pretty thorough.
>
>   I did this a while ago, Carla. It's still off.
>
>   Yes, it will do a lot, but the model is completely foreign to me;
> probably because I've never, ever used winWord for anything. The concept of
> markups is both easy for me to grok and to support (even if I cannot see
> the codes). But, figuring out what's a paragraph style issue and what's a
> page issue is quite different. Don't forget that working for 18 years with
> WordPerfect forged a strong sense of how processing words should be done.
> OO is totally different; not necessarily worse, just different.
>
>   There was something I sought in the on line help earlier this week and
> could not find. Turned out in was hidden in a style formatting dialog box
> but there was absolutely no reference to it in the help index.
>
> Thanks,
>

Ah, my apologies, I just tried what you were doing and it is obscure. Darn 
thang. sorry!

Carla




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