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Pinkie · 08-21-2015, 11:53 AM

I tried LO first when it was 3. but back then it didn't talk to Office well at all, so I went back to Word.
This time I started with V4.4 and upgraded to 5, hoping it would solve some of the problems, but it didn't. If anybody could tell me how to solve these problems, I'd happily go back to LO. I'd rewrite the macros - if they worked once I'd done it, but I recorded two very straightforward macros and neither of them work properly. When they're recorded, they work fine, but close LO, open it again, and they're erratic. One (the one to capitalize the first letter in a sentence) only works a bit, and the other (to change the background color of instances of a certain word) doesn't work at all. It looks as if it is, but there's no change to the document.
I'm looking at Softmaker and WPS now, and they seem to be better suites, with a better compatibility with Word. Word is industry standard, so like it or not, I'm going to come into contact with it at some point, and I need a program that works with it seamlessly.
Scrivener's word processor doesn't have macro capability, but it displays expected behaviours, and it's consistent.
I've used the program on Windows 8.1, and now on Windows 10, on two different computers. No change.

08-21-2015, 11:53 AM	#6
Pinkie Connoisseur Posts: 66 Karma: 707918 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Kindle keyboard, Nook Color, Kobo	Problems with LO 5 I tried LO first when it was 3. but back then it didn't talk to Office well at all, so I went back to Word. This time I started with V4.4 and upgraded to 5, hoping it would solve some of the problems, but it didn't. If anybody could tell me how to solve these problems, I'd happily go back to LO. I'd rewrite the macros - if they worked once I'd done it, but I recorded two very straightforward macros and neither of them work properly. When they're recorded, they work fine, but close LO, open it again, and they're erratic. One (the one to capitalize the first letter in a sentence) only works a bit, and the other (to change the background color of instances of a certain word) doesn't work at all. It looks as if it is, but there's no change to the document. I'm looking at Softmaker and WPS now, and they seem to be better suites, with a better compatibility with Word. Word is industry standard, so like it or not, I'm going to come into contact with it at some point, and I need a program that works with it seamlessly. Scrivener's word processor doesn't have macro capability, but it displays expected behaviours, and it's consistent. I've used the program on Windows 8.1, and now on Windows 10, on two different computers. No change.