Help me apolyton, you are my only hope!

[SlowwHand]

Come on, maaaan. Help a brother out.

[Felch]

A wise move. Stay far away from Open Office.

For those of us too bored to do our own research, what's wrong with Open Office? Besides not being a Microsoft product, of course.

Ben, sorry it crapped out on you. I'm with you on hating the auto-update. But I guess it's better than the alternative.

[-Jrabbit]

is this that irony everyone's been telling me about?

No.

Irony = full of iron

[Chemical Ollie]

Come on, maaaan. Help a brother out.

Brother Kenobi, the holy monk. :desire:

Wanking alone in his monastery cell. He needs no help with that.

[-Jrabbit]

I wish I could help, Ben, but I haven't the knowledge. Someone should step up.

For future reference: Save As is your friend. -1, -2,, -3 etc at the end of every session. Um, and the idea of routine backups to an external drive is similarly worthwhile.

Stay far away from Open Office.

Come to think of it, I'm occasionally using NeoOffice -- but for just one project. I needed the ability to have active weblinks in a PDF, and Office:Mac Word doesn't do that.

[KrazyHorse]

Vista does not crash Open Office. You were ****ing stupid for using Open Office.

QFT

(from a regular linux user)

[BlackCat]

QFT

(from a regular linux user)

Just out of curiosity - wich editor are you using ?

[Sirotnikov]

Ben, it was a mistake by Open Office (for retrieving an old document) and by you - when you left the program open during an update, which almost always reboots. The update procedure almost always tells you specifically to close all your files.


I don't know enough about Open Office to assist. Try searching for temporary files (.tmp extension or "~" in the filename), with a modified date the same as it was when you saved.

[Q Classic]

Myself, I prefer SciTE, KWrite, Nano, and Vim for most text editing (in that order); for word processing, AbiWord and LaTeX, depending on whether I need to actually pubilsh it, or if it's just for some tiny thing to send off.

[Q Classic]

No.

Irony = full of iron

Odds are they won't be anemic.

[KrazyHorse]

Just out of curiosity - wich editor are you using ?

For any word or xls documents I use a windows machine.

[KrazyHorse]

For text editing I use different ones depending on what I'm editing for. I use a GUI latex editor when I'm doing that. For programming usually emacs or even gedit.

[BlackCat]

For any word or xls documents I use a windows machine.

Well, then you are quite a liar - or said in other words - your comment of being a regular linux user is irrelevant

[Jon Miller]

Make backups of all important documents.

That reminds me, I have written quite a bit of code without diong so.

JM

[Jon Miller]

I also do presentations, notes, word, or spreasheets in windows. Sometimes also latex.

I do programming, etc, and latex in linux.

For work, I use linux far more often then windows.

JM