RE: on second thought

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>From: soaring@surfglobal.net
>To: abiword-user@abisource.com
>Subject: RE: on second thought
>Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:02:32 -0400
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>>Hi again,
>>
>>On second thought, I still think AbiWord has some quirky elements,
>like
>>having to save a doc just before closing it, even though you've
>saved it
>>a dozen + times already. There is an automatic 'save' as you type
>isn't
>>there?

If you configure it that way.
You can even configure the time factor.
You may find an investigation of the pull down menus on the overhead
bars interesting sometime.
Options like 'preferences' cater to preferences.

 Think so. Anyway, I just closed a document in AbiWord and
>>didn't save it AGAIN because it looked all disconnected (pieces of
>text
>>were strewn all over doc in random order - don't know what
>happened).
>>So, I closed it without saving it AGAIN because I thought it would
>save
>>the last saved version, which it didn't because when I went to open
>it
>>later, all that was there was a big white BLANK page. Nice.

You always save the last take, yes, even in the magnificent Word,
because you might not have reached your next time preset when you
close.
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>>Thank goodness, the doc wasn't very important, and I had printed it
>out
>>before that crappy thing happened. Sorry I don't want to hurt
>anyone's
>>feelings, but AbiWord does not compare in functionality to MS Word,
>but
>>it is cheaper, a whole lot cheaper.

To achieve functionality it might pay to explore the function options.
I don't think, from what you say, that you have discovered any of the
power it can offer as a word processor.
If you find Abiword a challenge, please allow me to refer you to
LaTeX, or perhaps, Groff.
Regards,

...
To another poster, whoever said that sarcasm was the poorest form of
wit was a victim of it.

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Received on Tue Apr 18 12:30:46 2006