Not even by going into Task Manager and clicking End Task would it shut down. But this time, I could not shut OpenOffice down. The program froze - and I lost 3 documents. I panicked as I had just written a lot so I clicked save. I right clicked on the word and added it to the dictionary so it would not be underlined as a spelling error. What happened just now is I included a word - a science word - that was not in the dictionary. This has been painful as I've had to re-write some important documents that I had already gotten mostly written. When it crashes, you can lose up to 15 minutes of writing, depending on when it last auto-saved. In the last few weeks, I've lost a lot of work. This latest version has been crashing a lot.
I do like Microsoft Excel better than Calc because I find it a lot easier to figure out how to write functions using the prompts in Excel than in Calc I find trying to do more complex functions in Calc extremely frustrating and infuriating. I have never figured out how to replace two paragraph marks with one, as an example. If you want to do anything slightly complicated, you have to go learn specifically how to enter it and that can take some time digging online. In Writer, the one issue is that Search feature is very difficult to learn to use. Besides the options of the search function, I have never felt like there was a feature that is in Word that I needed and didn't have in Writer. Almost everything that is in Word is in Writer. easier for some reason in Writer although they are almost identical. For example, you can add multiple columns to a table at once this is not in Word and it's very convenient and helpful feature when working on a table, and I find changing the text from all caps to no caps etc. Some features are better than features found in Microsoft Word.
I've been using Open Office Writer and Calc for years.
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