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petewills, on 04 February 2012 - 01:51 PM, said:
Layback Bear - Good recommendation.
The Jarte Word Processor is an extremely handy program to have on a flashdrive, very quick load.
Useful that it opens .docx files, (including 2010 .docx files), provided you have the Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office System, installed.
kcsummer
I have OpenOfficePortable on a flashdrive - apart from a slow load, it works perfectly.
The Jarte Word Processor is an extremely handy program to have on a flashdrive, very quick load.
Useful that it opens .docx files, (including 2010 .docx files), provided you have the Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office System, installed.
kcsummer
I have OpenOfficePortable on a flashdrive - apart from a slow load, it works perfectly.
My experience with Open Office is that (and the manual states the same) numbering paragraphs is hard-wired to occur. The system automatically numbers paragraphs which seems foolish to me because, for example, a letter may not have numbered paragraphs most likely. There is no way to turn them off according to all the websites I visited. Many people were looking for the answer to that conundrum and many came up empty-handed. You have to turn of the numbering on each paraphaph. Then if you hit enter to insert a paragraph it not only starts numbers but it automaticlally increases the indentation. Back out of that to delete it and it takes your margin outside the frame you have set for margins. Try to change one detail and when you hit enter a whole lot of stuff you don't want changed will change anyway.
The way I worked around it was to typd everything into an email without any page numbers or indentations. Then you can paste it into an empty Open Office Document and type in the numbers and indents you want but DON'T HIT ENTER or you will incur the rath of the Paragraph Number Gods and it will all go downhill from there. Until you find out this bit of info you can spend many hair-pulling hours trying to get 2 or 3 sentences fo display. It has a mind of its own - putting paragraph numbers and subsequent paragraphs like a. 1.1 B and the bullets in whatever style. All those are a disaster waiting to happen when you hit enter. I cannot tell you exactly how to use it so it doesn't happen because its complicated but you can figure it out w/o too much trouble just remember not to hit enter or you will throw everything out of whack and the problems keep multiplying.
I've used tons of WP systems for the best to the worst and imo I have never had such a hateful horrible experience in my life. You can have your document all dressed up and ready to go and screw it up at the last minute. Then if you try to correct at the last minute that's when the real fun starts.
If you like it good for you. However for me it SUCKS in a very very major way and is not at all friendly to try to navigate. If you paid me to use this program I'd say NO THANKS.
There are other problems which will become self-evident should anyone be foolhardy enough to try "adjusting". I'm not sure what the advantage is to having it on a flash drive.
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