(comments in-line) 2011/10/15 satchitb <[email protected]> <snip>
> 3. Paste Special must go. Regular Paste works with plain and rich text, > images and all other types. If not, it should. > Paste special is used when you copy rich text format and want to paste unformatted text to avoid formatting problems, for example (typically when copying from a web page), or when you copy an object and want to paste a picture of this object instead. I use Ctrl-Shift-V, but menu oriented people will need that entry > 4. AutoText should be moved to either AutoCorrect Options under Tools, or > Fields under Inset. > Even is sometimes the results are similar, AutoText is a completely different beast, not related with autocorrect nor fields: autotext inserts "blocks of document", autocorrect change small pieces of text and fields insert automated "live" content. <snip> > > D. Insert: > 1. Section should be removed. Manual editing with Headings works fine to > delineate sections. > Headings has nothing to do with "sections": section can be used, for example, to have on the same page text without columns and text with columns: typical format for scientific papers. As a matter of fact I'll eliminate the "Insert columns" entry instead, because its results can be quite confusing (to change the page style or to introduce a section, depending on the situation) if the user do not know what Writer is doing... and most users do not know what Writer is doing. > 3. Consider Cross-References into Index. > Why? <snip> > 10. The option File should be removed. I do not believe any users attach > files which are not covered in Picture, Sound and Video, etc to documents. > As a matter of fact, it is quite useful when you want to add some text created on a different document and you do not want to use master documents just to merge two files. > <snip> > > G. Tools: > 1. Consider bundling Outline Numbering and Line Numbering with Bullets and > Numbering under Format. > All three are completely different, even if they *seem* similar. I'm afraid that the only way to make this more clear is to completely redesign the whole thing from scratch... > > LibreOffice Writer, while being the most feature-rich word processor on > Linux, is also often slow and accused of being disorganised and inelegant. > Even keeping to the existing look, a lot can be done to streamline its > menus > and functions. > Changing defaults! :) Cheers Ricardo -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
