Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-25 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 25/02/18 6:51 PM, John Hart wrote: On 2/24/2018 9:58 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote: If you have written many programs that do what you want, you should know that you overruled the default of the Operating system. In windows, every application has a default path, and when a program directly

Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-24 Thread John Hart
On 2/24/2018 9:58 PM, Martin Groenescheij wrote: If you have written many programs that do what you want, you should know that you overruled the default of the Operating system. In windows, every application has a default path, and when a program directly writes something, it doesn't change the

Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-24 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 25/02/18 10:34 AM, John Hart wrote: On 2/24/2018 3:32 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: OpenOffice has always worked the way the Martin described. What you are seeing with the open dialog is how your operating system works. OpenOffice does not have control over that. 1. What does 'default path'

Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-24 Thread John Hart
On 2/24/2018 3:32 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: OpenOffice has always worked the way the Martin described. What you are seeing with the open dialog is how your operating system works. OpenOffice does not have control over that. 1. What does 'default path' mean in the statement:    "OpenOffice does

Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-24 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 2/24/2018 4:34 PM, John Hart wrote: > On 2/24/2018 3:38 AM, Martin Groenescheij wrote: >>> I'm using v3.3, and after saving it changed the path, which was >>> annoying, and explains the need for the method Mkaye asked about, >>> which wouldn't change the default path. >> >> Sorry, but OpenOffice

Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-24 Thread John Hart
On 2/24/2018 3:38 AM, Martin Groenescheij wrote: I'm using v3.3, and after saving it changed the path, which was annoying, and explains the need for the method Mkaye asked about, which wouldn't change the default path. Sorry, but OpenOffice doesn't changes the default path. Are you saying v4.

Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-24 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 24/02/18 1:13 PM, John Hart wrote: On 2/23/2018 6:16 PM, John Hart wrote: Save as, allows one the save to another location, as well as change the name. I've never tried it, just did and it works for me. I'm using v3.3, and after saving it changed the path, which was annoying, and explains

Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-24 Thread zahra a
hi. the last version of openoffice is 4.1.5 now. you can select save as and put your files anywhere you need. also you can save your files anywhere you want and edit them whenever you need. On 2/24/18, John Hart wrote: > On 2/23/2018 6:16 PM, John Hart wrote: >> Save as, allows one the save to an

Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-23 Thread John Hart
On 2/23/2018 6:16 PM, John Hart wrote: Save as, allows one the save to another location, as well as change the name. I've never tried it, just did and it works for me. I'm using v3.3, and after saving it changed the path, which was annoying, and explains the need for the method Mkaye asked abou

Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-23 Thread Howard Blum
I don't have that issue or problem with my Mac. On Feb 23, 2018 5:16 PM, "John Hart" wrote: > On 2/23/2018 2:21 PM, Wade Smart wrote: > >> Why cant you just click SaveAs and save it to another location? >> Which is the exact same thing you would do on and MS product. >> >> >> The main feature mi

Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-23 Thread John Hart
On 2/23/2018 2:21 PM, Wade Smart wrote: Why cant you just click SaveAs and save it to another location? Which is the exact same thing you would do on and MS product. The main feature missing has always been an extension that allows users to "save to" or "write to" a different disc or a flash dr

Re: non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-23 Thread Wade Smart
Why cant you just click SaveAs and save it to another location? Which is the exact same thing you would do on and MS product. Wade -- Registered Linux User: #480675 Registered Linux Machine: #408606 Linux since June 2005 On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 3:15 PM, marcia wrote: > Most of the acronyms that

non-techie's comment/question

2018-02-23 Thread marcia
Most of the acronyms that fill the page describing the availability of extensions -- no, ALL of them -- are a foreign language to me. I've been using -- gratefully -- openoffice for a couple of years, and what was at the start an inconvenience has now become a "deal breaker." I guess I have to go