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Early NeoOffice Foibles


By newquisk - Posted on 24 October 2007

My first few days on NeoOffice haven't turned up any major problems, but I have encountered a couple of foibles. Most of these are personal preferences, but I think most heavy Word users while find them to be similarly annoying

  • Bullets: Word had me spoiled; simply typing an asterisk before a sentence and hitting return let me start a bulleted list. By default, it doesn't do this. You can get it to do something like that by turning on "Format > AutoFormat > While Typing." This turns the asterisks into bullets, but a) they're not standard bullets (like you get from the regular bulleted list, and b) it doesn't indent them like a regular list.
  • Hyperlinks: NeoOffice won't automatically hyperlink web addresses unless you turn on “While Typing