Re: Text overwriting and data not presenting

[Rochelle <rh...@gmail.com>]

Hi Everyone,
I wanted to report back.  I took my mac air into an apple servicer about a
few other issues I was having.  I happen to mention my problem of text
overwriting other text, creating a tangle of letters on one spot of the
page.  I was told the problem is the video card. The tech guy said he has a
mac air like mine and has the same problem. Sometimes it presents data
differently, upside down, etc.  It's quirky, but can resolve itself on it's
own or I can also power down and restart.

Rochelle




On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 3:54 AM Martin Groenescheij <Ma...@groenescheij.com>
wrote:

>
> > On 26 Sep 2020, at 05:09, Rochelle <rh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I've been using Apache Open Office 4.0.1 with my 2012 Mac Air and have
> had
> > little problems in the past.
>
> Working with old versions is asking for problems, please upgrade to the
> most recent version.
>
> > I usually save my documents to my drive in MS (.doc and .xls) as they are
> > often are shared with other MS and MAC users.
>
> Always save and maintain your documents in OpenOffice format and when
> needed save a MS Office copy for sharing with others.
> Also save your original OpenOffice files on your local disk, you should not
> share your original file only the copy.
>
> >
> > I recently had a mac store migrate my files to a new 2017 Mac Air with
> 1TB
> > upgrade as my older mac air storage was limited and freezing up on me.  I
> > have not had any issues opening older documents saved on my drive.
> >
> > #1
> > I found that a few recent saves in open office .doc form appear with all
> > the text superimposed upon itself and I'm unable to make sense of the
> > document. It does not happen with all documents received, just a few.
> > This has also happened when I opened and tried to save a .docx email
> > attachment
>
> This looks like a display problem. What happens when you copy and paste
> the content into a new document?
>
> >
> > #2 Spreadsheet data not presenting - Very Strange
> > Cells in the spreadsheet appear to be hiding. Clicking on a cell will
> show
> > the data, but does not appear otherwise.
> > Also the situation is not static. When I scroll on the page, sometimes
> some
> > of the data will appear and othertimes, data that was visible is no
> longer
> > viewable unless one clicks on the cell.
>
> Same as above.
>
> >
> > Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. This is very
> stressful
> > and more so during covid, where reliable software is crucial to get any
> > work done.
> >
>
> The best help I can offer is: Maintain every document in one format and
> when necessary convert it to an foreign format for use by others.
> It is like creating a document in English the translate it in a foreign
> language,
> next time you take the foreign document translate it into English and add
> more text. Finally you save it in the foreign language and the contents
> doesn’t make sense at all.
>
>
> > Rochelle
>
>