[tdf-discuss] Re: Old Bugs

Le 2010-11-02 13:57, Robert Derman a écrit :
> 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.

Thanks for the note Robert. Are the devs aware that these two problems 
match? It seems like such a trivial problem, but I can see, even in my 
profession, as a teacher, that it would be quite annoying to lose your 
place in a larger document. Not to mention an academic losing his place 
in a thesis or research project etc.

Marc


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