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

[masgramondou.livejournal.com]

I'm not a user of OO3 but the earlier versions e.g. 2.4 don't have this problem. I just checked.

However it is possible that I'm changing the spacing in a different way to you. The way I do it is to press F11 to bring up the style list, then right click on the style for paragraphs (First line Indent) and select modify, then go to spacing and change it to Double.

If you do this and also verify that the spacing for the headers is single then you should not have a problem int he future. These changes do seem to be remembered in the RTFing in oo 2.4 at least

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Nope, you're right; 2.4 behaved itself, and we got along fine. Unfortunately, I need to download 3.0 in order to get a bit of needed functionality for something else (when did my life get so complicated?) and so I broke the Cardinal Rule, to wit: Do not upgrade your word processor until the Book has been sent to the editor.