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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sat Jan 31 21:32:45 +0000 2009 ------- I don't know how active wordperfect is at this point, but if memory serves, it also has a normal view. I'm a Mac user, and wouldn't even consider using Pages, because it lacks the normal view. I never thought of normal view as a power user feature. But maybe it is, because the people who seem to be most concerned about it are people who do extensive work in long or complex documents. The whole "page metaphor" is so pointless most of the time when you are doing text editing and writing (as opposed to layout and other formatting). It's just a distraction, an allusion to the typewriter or something. It's cute. It may work well for many people. But 25 years or more of "normal" view seems to indicate that that view works well for a lot of people also. I just can't understand why the user isn't given the option to have this view in OO. It's kind of a sad shame, and actually pretty damaging to the linux platform in general. This whole netbook phenomena is a huge opportunity for Linux. But for this deficiency in OO, I might well consider buying a Linux netbook. I already use Firefox and Thunderbird extensively. But I need a function office suite as well. The lack of "normal" view means that OO is not functional for my needs. So it'll likely be a win xp netbook for me. I bet a lot of other folks are in the same place on this. Alas. I don't want to learn to drive a car with a joystick where the steering wheel usually is. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
