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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 12 00:24:51 -0700 
2006 -------
The way OOo treats pages and their formatting is so different to the way the
competition does it that just having the same place for the menu entry doesn't
really help users. Even if people had found the menu entry where they are used
to have it they would fail to work with it if they didn't understand the
fundamental differences in the concept of how pages are formatted.

OTOH if they understood the different concept I doubt that they would still have
problems to find the menu entry.
And any person with a sane mind that doesn't find a menu entry to format a page
wher he knows it from Word should be able to find it where it really belongs 
;-). 

IMHO the ux tests often neglect that the situation they study is artificial and
not necessarily typical for "real life": if you ask a Word user "setup the page"
and put a time pressure on him he might look a little bit clueless. OTOH if
somebody works with Writer the first time and thinks "how can I format the page"
there is a good chance that he will find the right place in the menu pretty
soon. But even if it took some minutes next time he will find it quite fast
because he will grasp that this is the natural place for an entry like this one.

So I opt for not adding "File-Format Page". Honestly speaking we are making
fools of ourselves with changes like this one.

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