On Friday 05 January 2007 15:41, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> I was helping someone come to terms with computing a while back, and > >> every time they closed a document, they'd be asked about saving it, and > >> they'd always say yes, no matter what. > > Anne Wilson: > > But at least it's the safe option. > > But it wasn't. They were losing data and keeping broken copies. They > were saving unintentional changes to documents, irretrievably losing the > originals. Likewise, they were saving what were meant to be temporary > changes to documents (bit they didn't want printed, but still wanted in > the file). > Sorry, but there's no way on earth you can protect data from people who refuse to use the brain. > > So you don't consider print settings for the document to be a real > > change? I do. It's odds on that if I want to print it again I will want > > to use the identical settings. > > I don't. If I'd changed printer settings, perhaps. But just printing > the document, no. The "document" hasn't changed. Data about it may > have, if you keep track of how many times it's printed. But in the > usual sense of whether some document has changed, refers to the actual > content. That I had to test, as I had never seen it happen. I opened a document in OOWriter, one that I knew had been previously printed. I accepted the printer settings and printed it. I then closed it. No dialogue - it just closed. Anne
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