I use Apache Open Office as my office suite. I've used it for the past few years since my MS Office trial expired. At first, it felt clunky and cumbersome, but it wasn't difficult to figure out the nuances. The program even reads Word documents, which is a plus. For a free office suite, it does what I need it to do.
Yesterday, I ran into my first minor road block with the program, though. Well, it wasn't exactly a roadblock, but an annoyance. For two days, I'd been having issues with my office program. The auto spellcheck would highlight e v e r y s i n g l e w o r d as misspelled. It was distracting, annoying and time-consuming. Yesterday, I wrote most of my post in Blogger because I couldn't handle seeing all of the red squiggles.
I knew it was a setting somewhere because I had just done an update in Open Office, but I didn't have the focus or inclination to look for a fix yesterday. I tried all the settings within the program, but none seemed to address the problem. This morning, I decided to dive into Google to find the fix because I couldn't go one more minute with all the distractions.
Sure enough, there was an entry in an Open Office forum detailing the steps to take to fix the issue. I was happy to find this information, but a little perturbed to find the answer. I was happy because I could fix the problem, but perturbed because obviously, it was a big enough issue that Apache had to address it in a help forum.
As I said, I've been using this program for years, and essentially it's been doing what I need it to do when I need it to do it. I did discover some limitations when I was making the decorations and invitations for my daughter's birthday party, but a different download solved those problems.
And I'm back to “why”. Why did this update disrupt these settings? Why did none of the previous updates change the settings? According to the forum, the first time someone asked this question was a few years ago, so it's not as though it just happened with this particular update. Why can't they fix the bug that causes the disruption? Why does it only happen to some users some of the time?
Sometimes I drive myself crazy asking why. It's like having a toddler with me all of the time, inside my own head. It especially drives me crazy when there isn't an answer aside from “because”. I guess I dislike randomness; feeling like there is no purpose for something that occurs.
You would think I'd be more accepting of randomness at my age, and given my circumstances, but I find that the older I get, the less I just blindly accept things. I need a reason, a purpose. Things happening without an answer to why? I just don't deal well with it.
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