RE: [libreoffice-users] WordPad

At 07:02 AM 8/16/2015, you wrote:
> Group:
>
> This thank-you is to all who responded.
>
> I'm grateful for all of the help.
>
> This is an active group, to judge by the number 
> of responses that my simple (er, naïve; maybe, stupid as well) query received.
>
> You are, also, an informative, spirited (er, 
> maybe, contentious as well) group.
>
> Most of you realized how little I knew about LO. 
> I still know little, though all of you have 
> helped to push away, a good distance, the darkness that had engulfed me.
>
> First: I solved the problem of putting a WordPad 
> document into LO so that I could benefit from 
> its vastly superior features. I don't know what 
> I'd been doing incorrectly, but I now go 
> directly to my desktop LO icon to work on my novel.
>
> (By the way, at the risk of being told, again, 
> that I don't know what I'm doing - I don't - I 
> found that when backing up my desktop to an 
> external hard drive, LO didn't copy to it as the 
> other programs did; I had to back it up on its own.)
>
> On the main matter: There is no way, if I 
> understand all of you, to have the program save 
> my changes without my answering Yes to the question when exiting a document.
>
> I'd been looking for an automatic, periodic save 
> without exiting; while autosave does that, it's 
> only for the purpose of retrieving the document 
> in case of a malfunction. (Do I have that right? No?)


Peter,  An automatic periodic save without 
exiting is in LO but you have to set it in the 
options from the 
menu.  Tools>Options>Load/Save>General  Under the 
Save heading you can set the time interval to 
save the recovery information AND THE 
DOCUMENT.  Set the time interval for whatever you 
want and check the box to save the document along 
with the recovery information.  Make the time as 
short as you are comfortable with realizing that 
the save operation will interrupt you. Depending 
on the size of your document and the speed of 
your computer/hard drive, there may be a 
measurable pause during the save 
operation.  Contrary to comments, where the 
document is saved is determined by the folder 
path you specify in  Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Paths>My Documents.

Jerry


> Even having the option set to saving every five 
> minutes is of no help if I then exit without 
> saying Yes to a save. . . . And, as one poster put it, that's a good thing.
>
> It seems that hitting control+s does do the kind 
> of 'internal' save that I seek; I just have to 
> remember to do it periodically. Thanks to the 
> poster who recommended that. (As I say, I know so little about all of this.)
>
> To the poster who said that I was wrong, that I 
> didn't join LO because it's not a membership: 
> Yes, I did. In order to take part in this forum, I had to sign up.
>
> I'm glad that I did. Long may you all, in your 
> various ways of using and explaining LO, reign.
>
> Peter Pullman
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:06:34 -0700
> > From: dennisthetiger@chez-vrolet.net
> > To: peterpullman@hotmail.com; users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] WordPad
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 07:07:53 -0700 (MST)
> > peterpullman <peterpullman@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I tried to put the contents of a WordPad document in a file that I had
> > > created using Libre Office.
> > >
> > > I joined Libre because I would like to have its AutoSave function.
> > >
> > > When I exited and then re-entered this Libre file, I saw that AutoSave
> > > hadn't worked.
> >
> > I need to clarify this.  If I am correct in reading this, the following
> > steps took place:
> >
> > * Created file in Libreoffice; saved it in a format that Wordpad
> > would understand; worked on it; closed file
> > * Opened file in Wordpad, noted the lack of changes, maybe worked on it,
> > closed file
> >
> > Am I correct?  If not, please outline what happened.  If I'm correct,
> > please note how long you worked on the file in LibreOffice.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Dennis
>
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