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Subject:RE: FWD: Open Office experience out there? From:"Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 16 May 2002 16:09:53 +0100
>You may remember that I asked to borrow some complex MS Word documents last
week. I'm
>still playing with them in OO for a review I'm hoping to do, but I have
combined them
> into a master document of about 350 pages. I'm still playing about, and
haven't
>investigated cross-references or index markers yet. However, first
impressins are
> promising. Scrolling is speedier than under MS Word, and there's been no
corruption of
> documents.
The worst problem I've noticed so far in playing with Open Office is that
the regular expressions don't work. (From the OO website, this is a known
bug caused by copyright problems.) It looks as if this makes it impossible
to do any search-and-replace work more complex than "find x, replace with
y" - it doesn't look possible, for example, search for triple spaces and
replace with a tab. (Given the way the developers here format documents,
that's an essential <g>).
Jane Carnall
The writers all stand around a cauldron chanting and occasionally tossing in
a small regular expression. Unless stated otherwise, these opinions are
mine, and mine alone. Apologies for the long additional sig: it is added
automatically and outwith my control.
Home: hj -dot- carnall -at- virgin -dot- net
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