Hi,
Just bought a new computer (after 11 years with a mac mini). It's
another mac, the air book or is it a book air, anyway, I'm trying to
make do without Microsoftware, WORD and EXCEL, and I've gone and
downloaded Apache's offering.
I've got the __OpenOffice.org Writer for Microsoft Word users:__ to
help me on my way, but I'm disappointed to find no mention of ^ in it.
WORD uses ^ to code unprintable marks like ^l, linefeed, ^t tab, ^p
paragraph and so on.
Why not add a table with all the ^ codes and what to do in Writer to
get the same effect? There must be a way to change a ^l to a ^p or
vice versa, or change all ^ps to ^p^ps.
I don't know who I'm writing to, but I did do (what in the 1970s was
called) Tech Lit or Tech Doc for a while, as my job, and I quite
enjoyed it, but I did get paid. I am quite surprised that Apache
Openstuff is free. (I think Office is wildly overpriced, by the same
token, and that it says something rather discouraging about people,
and "the market" that the keep going back in droves to microsoft,
rather than going to Apache or a number of other offerings. Perhaps if
you charged $25 for each component, you'd have even more people taking
it! Not that I really know what I'm talking about . . . I'm just
grateful you're there, and can either help with my ^ codes or at least
tell me who I ought to be asking, if not you.
Yours sincerely
Nicholas Barnett
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