03-25-2016, 04:48 PM
Hi Newtus,
Yes, I noticed that WPS is much more agile when it comes to the .docx format. I probably would have switched to WPS as my default prog, except it doesn't support macros or autocorrect, the latter of which I highly value. Not sure if it supports Regex searches either; I think not.
The file in question never was a .doc or .docx. It was plain text lifted off a web page (pdf), and on my second try it passed through a gedit save, which should have definitively wiped it of any extraneous formatting.
I think a major part of this is LO itself. There have been many complaints about memory usage. And my F/R operation was pulling in 20,000 hits, so it was a pretty big deal. Gedit, to my surprise, behaved even worse. Leafpad and Mousepad (which is really neat) did great, but don't have Regex searching. So I guess I'll wait and see what LO does about its problem.
BW,
Paul
Yes, I noticed that WPS is much more agile when it comes to the .docx format. I probably would have switched to WPS as my default prog, except it doesn't support macros or autocorrect, the latter of which I highly value. Not sure if it supports Regex searches either; I think not.
The file in question never was a .doc or .docx. It was plain text lifted off a web page (pdf), and on my second try it passed through a gedit save, which should have definitively wiped it of any extraneous formatting.
I think a major part of this is LO itself. There have been many complaints about memory usage. And my F/R operation was pulling in 20,000 hits, so it was a pretty big deal. Gedit, to my surprise, behaved even worse. Leafpad and Mousepad (which is really neat) did great, but don't have Regex searching. So I guess I'll wait and see what LO does about its problem.
BW,
Paul