[ubuntu-za] Libre Office Auto Correct features are destroying me

[ubuntupunk at gmail.com]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:30 PM, ubuntupunk at gmail.com
<ubuntupunk at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Robin Bownes <robin at bownes.co.za> wrote:
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>> On 23/04/2012 11:34, ubuntupunk at gmail.com wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>>  Sorry to bother with this issue, but the lack of user-friendliness in
>> LibreOffice is killing me.
>>
>>  Whenever I try to write up a document with numbering like so
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>>  1.1
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>>  1.2
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>>  1.3
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>>  LO insists on autoformating the paragraphs incorrectly. There appears
>> to be no way of turning off this feature in Tools > Options.
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>>
>>  More evidence of the "Dark Side' of Open Source
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>>  D.
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>>
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>>  Hi David,
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>> In some ways, I also get frustrated with Libre Office, but I've generally
>> found that the problem stems from me assuming that the programme works, or
>> should work like MS Word, which I used and trained for years.
>>
>> When you say that, "LO insists on autoformating the paragraphs
>> incorrectly." when you apply Outline Numbering, what is it that you mean
>> exactly.
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>> I must say, that although outline numbering doesn't work the exactly the
>> same as in Word, I have, after some relearning, found it to work pretty
>> well.
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>> Let me know what the problem is more precisely and I'll see whether I can
>> help.
>>
>> Robin
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> If the feature actually worked, there wouldn't be a problem. I don't have
> time to go into what exactly is wrong with the feature, but it is really
> bad when it comes to legal documents.
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> All I want to do is turn off the feature so that I can do the paragraph
> numbering manually. I don't need MS features, which would be nice, just
> freedom to choose how the document will be handled.
>
> D.
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>


check the pic


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> *David Robert Lewis*
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> *8000*
> *South Africa*
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> *
> *Mobile 082 425 1454*
> *Landline 021 448 0021*
> *Fax 086 246 9859*
> *Skype david.robert.lewis*
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-- 
*David Robert Lewis*
*PO BOX 4398*
*Cape Town*
*8000*
*South Africa*
*
*
*Mobile 082 425 1454*
*Landline 021 448 0021*
*Fax 086 246 9859*
*Skype david.robert.lewis*
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