Re: [libreoffice-users] ot:Artha

Hi :)  
Sounds good.  It's a bit sad that we all have to use MS formats in order to communicate.  Of course 
i disagree with your thoughts about Odf but there is enough room in the world for both opinions.  
Your thoughts are as valid as anyone elses.
Regards from
Tom :)



--- On Fri, 24/2/12, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:

From: Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] ot:Artha
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 24 February, 2012, 7:51

On 02/24/2012 02:13 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> When you see a word with a red-wriggly line under it then right-click on it and near the bottom 
> of the menu is "Add to dictionary".  It works in Windows and Gnu&LInux but Mac probably has an 
> equivalent. 
> If you run the spell-check on the entire document then when your name gets picked-on as being a 
> mis-spelling the "Add to dictionary" button is in the lower half of the pop-up dialogue-box.  I 
> think "Ok" and "Cancel" are at the top but look lower down. 
> Either way is good. 
> Word-perfect is good apparently.  It's been a couple of decades since i last used it but i used 
> to really like it.  Just out of curiosity do you save documents in
> 1. Wp formats and if so can MS Office 2010 read them happily?
> 2. Odf formats, any problems?
> 3. MS formats that everyone can read?  Do they work?  Do you use the older Doc rather than DocX?
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
OK on the spell-check word addition.  Some  things I like about WP:  It does quotation marks, both 
single and double,  apostrophies, inch-marks and foot-marks just about perfectly.  It can read and 
write almost any format. It has a quick way to get to all kinds of
symbols and foreign characters, quite a bit beyond what you can get with a Compose key or AllChars. 
I wish Corel would once
again sell a Linux version--the original one cannot be loaded onto a modern Linux system.

To answer the question:  If I am writing  to send on the Internet, I use MS .doc format.  If I am 
writing for my own purposes,
for example, to write a letter that will go in snail-mail, I usually use the WP format.  I never 
use .odf; I believe that you should use
formats that other people besides Linux-users can read.  I wish .odf would just go away; there;s no 
need for it.

--doug

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