WordPad

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#1

I tried to put the contents of a WordPad document in a file that I had
created using Libre Office.

I joined Libre because I would like to have its AutoSave function.

When I exited and then re-entered this Libre file, I saw that AutoSave
hadn't worked.

My computer provided WordPad only - not any such Microsoft program.

Is Libre Office of no use to me when I'm writing in WordPad, even if I
transfer the contents to a Libre file?

#2

I need to clarify this. If I am correct in reading this, the following
steps took place:

* Created file in Libreoffice; saved it in a format that Wordpad
would understand; worked on it; closed file
* Opened file in Wordpad, noted the lack of changes, maybe worked on it,
closed file

Am I correct? If not, please outline what happened. If I'm correct,
please note how long you worked on the file in LibreOffice.

Thanks,
-Dennis

#3

I think the problem here may be a misunderstanding of autosave.

If I understand it correctly, autosave saves the document's recovery information at fixed time intervals. The default setting is to not save the document itself unless that option box is checked. If that option is selected it still won't have saved the pasted information if the document is closed immediately. After pasting, a simple press of ctrl-S will save everything.

Jerry

#4

Group:

This thank-you is to all who responded.

I'm grateful for all of the help.

This is an active group, to judge by the number of responses that my simple (er, naïve; maybe, stupid as well) query received.

You are, also, an informative, spirited (er, maybe, contentious as well) group.

Most of you realized how little I knew about LO. I still know little, though all of you have helped to push away, a good distance, the darkness that had engulfed me.

First: I solved the problem of putting a WordPad document into LO so that I could benefit from its vastly superior features. I don't know what I'd been doing incorrectly, but I now go directly to my desktop LO icon to work on my novel.

(By the way, at the risk of being told, again, that I don't know what I'm doing - I don't - I found that when backing up my desktop to an external hard drive, LO didn't copy to it as the other programs did; I had to back it up on its own.)

On the main matter: There is no way, if I understand all of you, to have the program save my changes without my answering Yes to the question when exiting a document.

I'd been looking for an automatic, periodic save without exiting; while autosave does that, it's only for the purpose of retrieving the document in case of a malfunction. (Do I have that right? No?)

Even having the option set to saving every five minutes is of no help if I then exit without saying Yes to a save. . . . And, as one poster put it, that's a good thing.

It seems that hitting control+s does do the kind of 'internal' save that I seek; I just have to remember to do it periodically. Thanks to the poster who recommended that. (As I say, I know so little about all of this.)

To the poster who said that I was wrong, that I didn't join LO because it's not a membership: Yes, I did. In order to take part in this forum, I had to sign up.

I'm glad that I did. Long may you all, in your various ways of using and explaining LO, reign.

Peter Pullman