Open Office keeps changing what I write

F***! (sorry)
In years no program has managed to get me so angry. Could someone please tell me…
a) …how to make open office stop changing what I write. Everywhere, all the time, once and for all. I know what I want to type, dammit. No appending the current year after me trying to enter a temperature somewhere, no messing with my caps.
b) …an alternative to OO. All I need is writing simple formatted text and doing a table once in a while. And I don't like to install half of gnome/kde to do so.
Thanks!
Last edited by whoops (2010-02-26 14:13:35)

If all you want is some decently formatted text, then you may have a look at txt2tags in community. All you then need is a simple character-based editor of your liking, vim, emacs, gedit, or else.
Ah, yes, and if you want some really small (even console based) spreadsheed program, have a look at GNU Oleo. It isn't maintained any more, however, as far as I know but it suits most common tasks. There are two of them in the AUR, simple oleo which is curses based and oleo-motif with a Motif-based GUI.
Last edited by bernarcher (2010-02-26 14:42:22)

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