On reflection, freemycatfish's
first error, and the
root cause of his problems, is probably that he has never learned to touch-type despite his making his living by typing. He cannot look at the screen when he types.
As a consequence, his
second error is that he looks at the keyboard when he types, and he does not look at the screen to see what he is doing. He is typing blindly ...
His
third error is to type Ctrl+A by mistake.
His
fourth error is that he does not see the whole screen get highlighted, which alerts a normal typist that all has been selected - he is not looking at the screen.
His
fifth error is to carry on typing, completely oblivious, and hence he replaces the entire document with his next keystrokes.
His
sixth error is that he does not see it disappear - he types on blindly, completely oblivious. Some time later, when he eventually looks up at the screen, he is horrified to see he has lost everything.
His
seventh error is that he hasn't learned about Windows or Writer, so he does not know the very basic fact that pressing Ctrl+Z (Windows), or choosing Edit > Undo ... (Writer) will undo what he has recently done, and recover all the text which he has carelessly instructed Writer to delete.
Despite his seven errors he now blames the loss on Writer - and he launches his tirades against Writer, Writer's authors and against those trying to assist him. The only organisation receiving praise is Microsoft which, ironically, is the very organisation which provides the Ctrl+A = Select All function he detests so much!
It appears that freemycatfish must have tried the "convert Ctrl+A to the About OpenOffice pop-up" as we have heard no more from him. I hope that he honours his pledge to give some money to the OpenOffice project - he can do so at
How to Donate.
It would also be appreciated if he thanked those who so patiently explained his errors to him - three people typed over 2,500 words trying to help him - and they explained to him how to prevent its ever happening again.