Back when "save" used to mean something

[rolanni]

Who can walk me through a procedure for insuring that Open Office 3.0 will actually SAVE the changes I make my manuscript?

Yesterday, I spent 20 minutes of my life reformatting a manuscript OO3 had whimsically decided to make single-spaced. And, yes, it was 20 minutes because, though the text is double-spaced, each chapter heading is single spaced, so we're not just talking a simple select-all-line-spacing-double. However, I made the changes, swearing the entire time, SAVED THE FILE and got on with writing the next chapter, in its own file.

This morning, having edited the chapter I wrote yesterday, I opened the master file, discovering to what delight you may imagine, that, yep, the whole damn' thing is single spaced again.

I note that OO3 wants me to Save Everything in whatever-the-heck its native format is. This is not an option as the manuscript will eventually, please ghod, go to someone who wishes it to be in .rtf format. Double-spaced. With the chapter headings single-spaced. And one-inch margins all around. No matter what Open Office 3.0 thinks is cool.

ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Simple solution: use paragraph styles. (Applying formatting to the document as a whole is a mug's game -- it's probably being overridden by whatever the Default para style thinks is correct. And, oh yeah, one of the items in Tools->Options->Load/Save allows you to change the default file format OOo saves things in. But why mess with that when you can use "Save As ..." when you're ready to generate a final submission draft?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

But why mess with that when you can use "Save As ..." when you're ready to generate a final submission draft?

Because when I "save as" at the bitter end the submission draft will be scrod and I'll have to fix it by hand then?

I did find the toggle to save as .rtf. Small victories.