Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

Peter Rodwell wrote:
> I have only today joined this discussion so I don't know whether this has
> already been discussed or not.
>
> There are two reasons why I have just paid money to upgrade to Office 
> 2010
> instead of switching to OO/LO:
>
> 1. Complete file compatibility. I frequently handle documents with 
> very complex
> formatting. These come from my clients, all of whom use MS Office. I
> translate and edit the documents and return them. They *must* retain 
> 100% of
> the original formatting. So far this has not been the case with Oo.
>
> 2. Search and replace. I work with large documents, often 400+ pages. 
> As I'm
> translating, I usually come across a word or phrase that I know will 
> be repeated
> throughout the document so I search and replace it to avoid having to 
> type it
> continuously. I do this *dozens* of times a day. MS Word leaves me where
> I was when I did the S/R so that I can continue working. Oo leaves me 
> at the
> point of the last replace so I have to manually go back to where I 
> was. I know
> of many people for whom this is a dealbreaker -- they won't move to Oo/LO
> until this is fixed.
>
> Just my €0.02 worth.
>
> Peter.
This needs to be fixed/changed also with the spell checker.  it always 
leaves the cursor at the beginning of the last sentence where any word 
was corrected, instead the cursor should be left where it was before the 
spell check was run.

On a separate subject, to Peter above, I can see where your profession 
certainly justifies the expenditure for MS Office, I would hope however 
that you at least downloaded and installed OOo/LO in addition, since it 
costs little or nothing and might at times prove useful, for instance 
opening some MS Office files where Office itself fails to be able to 
open them.  (This does happen).

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