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

Mon Apr 23 12:07:00 UTC 2012

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net> wrote:

>  This irritates me also, I have found ways to get out of it, but you need
> to repeat the process every time you insert a new number. Hopefully there's
> a better way out.
>
> Jan Greeff
>
>
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> On 23/04/2012 13:46, ubuntupunk at gmail.com wrote:
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> 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:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 23/04/2012 11:34, ubuntupunk at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>  1.1
>>>
>>>  1.2
>>>
>>>  1.3
>>>
>>>
>>>  LO insists on autoformating the paragraphs incorrectly. There appears
>>> to be no way of turning off this feature in Tools > Options.
>>>
>>>
>>>  More evidence of the "Dark Side' of Open Source
>>>
>>>  D.
>>>
>>>
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>>>   Hi David,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>  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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>  check the pic
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I know I can use MS Office. I can also just use Windows in a VM, but this
isn't the point of FOSS is it?

I think the issue comes down to the way LibreOffice fails to provide a
feature-less environment. The default is always on, and no way of turning
it off.

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