OT: Question about Office 2013

[Mike Barnes]

I haven't seen a Windows Explorer version that's limited to sorting by
filename.

Explorer can of course sort on properties of the file other than its
name, including the date created and date modified, but those are often
not the dates that the user wants the list sorted by. People include
dates in file names because it's convenient, and they will continue to
do so for the foreseeable future. The yyyy-mm-dd format makes perfect
sense for that.

 

[Stan Brown]

Thanks for the follow-up. I think I see where we parted ways. You seem to be
saying that Y2K was a sorting problem, while in my opinion that was the
least of it.

Of course there were more serious problems, but that doesn't mean
that sorting is not a problem.

 

[Mark12547]

I did a week or two ago and it constantly crashed for me. I have about
30 plus machines here and I only tried it on one of them.

Was that with version 4.0 of LibeOffice? If so, that wouldhave been very
soon after 4.0 was released.

Generally I'll let a version x.0 "mature" for a while or wait until
there is a x.0.1 available.

I am currently using 3.6.5.2 and have found the writer and calc quite
stable. The only problem I had with 3.x was when I upgraded from 2.x and
several somethings in the profile didn't migrate properly and were
interfering with the built-in help and with the "recent documents" list.

I have some data in Microsoft Access, I didn't like the ad-hoc interface
to the "Base" part of LibreOffice, so the only part of Microsoft Office
that I license and use is Access.

I have ended up using Google Calendar, Thunderbird (email & RSS feeds),
Firefox + AdBlock Plus, LibreOffice for word processing and
spreadsheets, KeePass for storing and auto-typing my passwords at
various web sites, 7-zip, testing Gravity for usenet, but paid north of
$100 for Access because so far it is the best fit for a couple of
databases I have.