Issue 50262

Summary: Saving an old document is confusing
Product: ui Reporter: mikemaccana <mikem>
Component: uiAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues
Version: OOo 2.0Keywords: usability
Target Milestone: AOO PleaseHelp   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

Description mikemaccana 2005-06-03 02:22:32 UTC 
The current dialog for saving older formats looks like this:

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"This document may contain formatting or content that cannot be saved in the
OpenOffice 1.0 Text Format. Do you want to save the document in this format anyway?

- Click 'Yes' to save in Openoffice 1.0 Text Document file format
- Click 'No' to use the latest OpenDocument file format and be sure all the
formatting and content is saved correctly.

[Yes] [No] [More Info]
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Having buttons labelled 'yes' or 'no', and then dialogs that define what each
button actually does, is complex. It's simpler to label the buttons with their
function, i.e.:

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"This document may contain formatting or content that cannot be saved in the
OpenOffice 1.0 Text Format. Do you want to save the document in this format anyway?

[ More Info ] [ Save as Openoffice 1.0 ] [ Save as OpenDocument ] 
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(pick button order you want for whatever platform)
Comment 1 eric.savary 2005-06-23 23:07:29 UTC 
That's not a Defect but an ENHANCEMENT.
But *YES* I do agree to 300%!

ES->MMP: though I'm not quite a newbie in using OOo, I need from time to time to
read this text to understand what this dialog wants from me. We may think about
something more global or automated (Save in original format | Save in OOo own
format) because of all filters we have and because of translations problems but,
please, make this dialog understable at first sight!
Comment 2 eric.savary 2005-08-11 12:38:05 UTC 
*** Issue 53209 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 3 matthias.mueller-prove 2009-09-06 11:13:42 UTC 
I am no longer officially active on OOo. Please take over.