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I use OpenOffice for many many years on Mac as well, it is my main platform and I can't reproduce or confirm your described problems. And you are correct we as developer would never accept such a behaviour. The only recommendation I have at the moment is that you try a cleanup of your user profile and try again. Rename in your user profile ~/Library/Application\ Support/OpenOffice or OpenOffice.org and start the office again. A new user profile will be created. If your problem after this still exist please let us know. Regards Juergen On 7/4/13 6:05 AM, James Boyk wrote: > Please excuse this intrusion. I have been using OpenOffice (now 3.4.1) > on my Mac (now 10.6.8) for a couple of years, at the recommendation of a > physicist/programmer friend (who, however, uses OO on a PC). > > As experienced on my Mac, OO is absurdly defective. I would happily pay > for an hour of time from someone knowledgeable to see if there's some > obvious thing wrong or if I should get another word processor (the only > OO function I use). > > OO font size changes spontaneously, e.g., from 12 pt. to 10 pt. > Sometimes I Save in 12 pt., and when I Open the file, it's 10 pt. > > The font changes spontaneously, too; or rather, certain points in the > document turn out to have different fonts associated with them. I'll be > working in Courier New and will put the cursor at a point where I want > to enter some new material; and it will appear in Palatino or another > font that's not Courier New. > > Text does not 'flow.' That is, there are gaps many lines long that don't > fill up automatically with succeeding text. > > Many things are unintelligible. Help function is useless. (No, I do not > participate in forums for such things.) > > For what it's worth, I have a BA in math, and was a programmer in the > '60s at Hughes Aircraft, System Development Corp. and Owens-Illinois. I > taught at Caltech for 30 years, including supervising many student > projects involving programming. I mention these things just to make > clear that, while I'm not technically up to date, I'm not a dope about > programming, either. But I have never seen an application that is so > opaque as OO, and so exhausting to work with. It just *can't* be the > case (I say to myself) that the developers find this behavior acceptable. > > If you can point me to someone really knowledgeable, I'll happily pay > that person for 30 or 60 minutes of phone consultation. > > (So what word processor *have* I liked? Hands-down, WordPerfect, which I > used from ver 4.1 to 5.2, giving it up only because I switched to the > Mac. The lack of WP is the one thing I don't like about using a Mac. I > have written a novel in MS Word on the Mac, and consider Word shockingly > bad. It is for "creating documents," I supposed; whereas WordPerfect--at > least as I experienced it for years, including writing a short book and > much else--is for Writing! > > > Yours, > > > James Boyk > Los Angeles > > www.JamesBoyk.com > www.performancerecordings.com/ > > for information only > At California Institute of Technology > Pianist in Residence 1974-2004 > www.its.caltech.edu/~boyk/ > Lecturer in Music in Electrical Engineering, > Founder/Director of Music Lab, 1979-2004 > www.its.caltech.edu/~musiclab/ > > IN CONCERT > Debussy "Reflets dans l'Eau" 6:20 > http://tinyurl.com/77abuhq > Beethoven Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33 21:24 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GXgvpGfok&feature=relmfu > Prokofiev Sixth Sonata: Finale 6:47 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQyaM2hzhuI > > TEACHING Int'l Keyboard Institute & Festival, 2011 > Piano Teaching-Moments 4:44 > http://youtu.be/W7wRxkzi36I > What I Wish I'd Been Taught 4:54 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEJDEiZWGo8&feature=relmfu > For Gifted Young Pianists 4:39 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdTjmWS3TU&feature=relmfu > > TEACHING Calif. Inst. of Technology > with 'Cellist 2:02 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g-9eHdAhMs&feature=relmfu > with Violinist 4:45 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7hB95zj-M&feature=relmfu > with Pianist 1:37 > www.youtube.com/watch?v=uotNrUtNtdY&feature=relmfu > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
