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%$#%&#&ing word files.
Apr. 26th, 2012 03:31 pmSo, about six months ago I switched from using OpenOffice to LibreOffice, because my computer-savviest buddy installed LibreOffice not OpenOffice when he resuscitated this laptop by feeding it a copy of Linux (which it devoured rather than installed, then booted itself with Windows and pretended it had never been broken. I... don't understand). He had a compelling argument why this switch was a good thing, but I do not recall it. Anyway, at the time this was fine, as the program seemed identical. As time progressed, however, there have been issues.
-The longer you work on a document, the more likely the text display is to distort, vertically compressing lines of text by omitting rows of pixels. Why or how it does this? No idea. And opening and closing the document makes it stop. Still, no idea what the Hell is going on.
-Horizontal lines, like underlining, will appear between rows of text. These cannot be deleted or formatted away, and copying and pasting the text into another application -- like, say, an LJ post document -- will bring the undeletable line as well. Trying to delete these lines or format around them usually makes them reproduce.
-Occasionally it will decide a document has been locked for editing by an unknown user (not you, and you don't have the privilege to unlock it). This is fine, you can just open a copy. It is, however, annoying.
I've been meaning to post about these issues for a while now, wondering if anyone else uses LibreOffice or similar programs and has experienced them as well. Today, however, I was strongly motivated to complain further. One of my files has become corrupted and apparently unreadable after an unexpected shutdown (the laptop battery is now dead, so when your cat runs across the room, trips over the cord, and unplugs it, everything shuts off).
That file? Was my word count file, which doubles as my to-do list and post-it note repository for reminders, clever quotations, and the like.
lzkvnhbsmdvmzsn ;lskdfih,zjbv,mz cv, ,.vbskjbvskjbvksjbvsbv
I am sorely aggrieved. Fortunately, I was productive and had finished my daily chores, and was working on editing the next chapter of Hellion Prince, so I actually KNOW what my current wordcount for the year is, rounded down to the nearest ten.
Still, if the data in this document can be recovered in some way, it'd be really $%^$ing handy.
GAH.
Coming Soon: more posts about the LARP, a post about my recent distressing preoccupation with mortality, and the next two chapters of The Hellion Prince.
ETA: Because I am an amazing kung fu supergenius and backed up my documents 48 hours ago, my wordcount document has been restored, complete with to-do list, cool quotations, and various and assorted memos. All I have lost was a single-digit number of words off my wordcount, since I did not have them memorized quite that precisely.
All of my complaints, however, still stand.
-The longer you work on a document, the more likely the text display is to distort, vertically compressing lines of text by omitting rows of pixels. Why or how it does this? No idea. And opening and closing the document makes it stop. Still, no idea what the Hell is going on.
-Horizontal lines, like underlining, will appear between rows of text. These cannot be deleted or formatted away, and copying and pasting the text into another application -- like, say, an LJ post document -- will bring the undeletable line as well. Trying to delete these lines or format around them usually makes them reproduce.
-Occasionally it will decide a document has been locked for editing by an unknown user (not you, and you don't have the privilege to unlock it). This is fine, you can just open a copy. It is, however, annoying.
I've been meaning to post about these issues for a while now, wondering if anyone else uses LibreOffice or similar programs and has experienced them as well. Today, however, I was strongly motivated to complain further. One of my files has become corrupted and apparently unreadable after an unexpected shutdown (the laptop battery is now dead, so when your cat runs across the room, trips over the cord, and unplugs it, everything shuts off).
That file? Was my word count file, which doubles as my to-do list and post-it note repository for reminders, clever quotations, and the like.
lzkvnhbsmdvmzsn ;lskdfih,zjbv,mz cv, ,.vbskjbvskjbvksjbvsbv
I am sorely aggrieved. Fortunately, I was productive and had finished my daily chores, and was working on editing the next chapter of Hellion Prince, so I actually KNOW what my current wordcount for the year is, rounded down to the nearest ten.
Still, if the data in this document can be recovered in some way, it'd be really $%^$ing handy.
GAH.
Coming Soon: more posts about the LARP, a post about my recent distressing preoccupation with mortality, and the next two chapters of The Hellion Prince.
ETA: Because I am an amazing kung fu supergenius and backed up my documents 48 hours ago, my wordcount document has been restored, complete with to-do list, cool quotations, and various and assorted memos. All I have lost was a single-digit number of words off my wordcount, since I did not have them memorized quite that precisely.
All of my complaints, however, still stand.
