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Gregg Bell · 03-21-2014, 01:57 AM

All right, thanks for the positive feedback, guys. I am really growing to like Linux and would hate to give it up. It seems though, back in the days when I was using XP, everything, regarding text, was pretty uniform with XP. In Linux I like using LO but often stuff opens in AbiWord in the default. So I've been copying and pasting, just a bit, between LO and AbiWord, and the result has been different text sizes, spaces deleted, and just general instability. But that isn't what the error message was about.

The "some errors were caused during the import" error has actually happened three or four times now and always in AbiWord. The first time the only unusual thing I did was to "select all" to copy a 5 or 6 page list of Linux commands. Then I saved it and everything seemed cool, but when I opened it, the error window opened (and like I said I was missing the last 90% of the text).

Since then, the other "some errors were caused during the import" errors were in AbiWord again, and with the last few error messages, there has been no data loss, but the first page is blank and whatever data there was is shunted to begin on the second page.

All I can think of in terms of anything being unusual in these instances is that I have been using the highlighter feature to highlight blocks of text. (And the highlighter works fine when AbiWord is open, but when I save and re-open for a while the highlighting has been there, but lately it has not. (And I'm talking about re-highlighting, saving and then re-opening.))

Then, getting concerned I might lose data, I "selected all" to copy my AbiWord doc (about 5 or 6 pages) and pasted it into LO, thinking LO might be more stable. But that led to the mess of font size changes and spaces deleted I mentioned in the first paragraph.

Not having had any problems with LO (except the cruft creeping in--described two posts ago--when converting an .odt file to .html in LO) I am thinking of using LO exclusively, but like I said AbiWord opens in the default and sometimes I don't even recognize the difference between it and LO and like I said before I like AbiWord. (It's quick and I like the way it copies stuff, doing the auto-complete thing.)

03-21-2014, 01:57 AM	#61
Gregg Bell Gregg Bell Posts: 2,266 Karma: 3917598 Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Itasca, Illinois Device: Kindle Touch 7, Sony PRS300, Fire HD8 Tablet	All right, thanks for the positive feedback, guys. I am really growing to like Linux and would hate to give it up. It seems though, back in the days when I was using XP, everything, regarding text, was pretty uniform with XP. In Linux I like using LO but often stuff opens in AbiWord in the default. So I've been copying and pasting, just a bit, between LO and AbiWord, and the result has been different text sizes, spaces deleted, and just general instability. But that isn't what the error message was about. The "some errors were caused during the import" error has actually happened three or four times now and always in AbiWord. The first time the only unusual thing I did was to "select all" to copy a 5 or 6 page list of Linux commands. Then I saved it and everything seemed cool, but when I opened it, the error window opened (and like I said I was missing the last 90% of the text). Since then, the other "some errors were caused during the import" errors were in AbiWord again, and with the last few error messages, there has been no data loss, but the first page is blank and whatever data there was is shunted to begin on the second page. All I can think of in terms of anything being unusual in these instances is that I have been using the highlighter feature to highlight blocks of text. (And the highlighter works fine when AbiWord is open, but when I save and re-open for a while the highlighting has been there, but lately it has not. (And I'm talking about re-highlighting, saving and then re-opening.)) Then, getting concerned I might lose data, I "selected all" to copy my AbiWord doc (about 5 or 6 pages) and pasted it into LO, thinking LO might be more stable. But that led to the mess of font size changes and spaces deleted I mentioned in the first paragraph. Not having had any problems with LO (except the cruft creeping in--described two posts ago--when converting an .odt file to .html in LO) I am thinking of using LO exclusively, but like I said AbiWord opens in the default and sometimes I don't even recognize the difference between it and LO and like I said before I like AbiWord. (It's quick and I like the way it copies stuff, doing the auto-complete thing.)