I have been watching the development of OOo over the past year, and I am
very impressed. Since I teach a writing intensive course, I point my
students toward this product if they do not have or they cannot afford a
commercial office suite. In the coming year, I will expand the scope of
one upper division course to include spreadsheet and presentation
assignments. OOo will help my students immensely. I think the OOo
community is certainly on the right track.
I am glad you find the program useful. I wish more teacher would be willing to recommend it to their students. Some are hesitant.
As I tinker with the OOo Writer, I have a couple of quick suggestions: First, it would be really nice to have a special "symbol font" button to post on the toolbar next to the super- and subscript buttons (as in the MS Word package). As a scientist, I find myself often needing to insert a Greek symbol, and the hassle of changing fonts is annoying if you have several symbols to insert. If it exists in OOo, I have yet to find it. Second, a "strikethrough" button would also be useful on the formatting toolbar.
What is wrong with *Insert > Special Character*? This pops up a menu showing all of the characters for a font.
I guess I don't really know what you are asking for, or what button you are referring to in Word.
Wishlist for sometime down the road: As OOo continues to grow, I look
forward to the presentation of an enhanced HTML editor module with
idiot-proof capabilities. A true WYSIWYG web page builder would really
be a killer app. I just can't seem to make my test pages look right
when viewed with IE.
You can edit HTML in OOo, but it is not always the best.
If you want WYSIWYG editor I would suggest NVU <www.nvu.com> or HTML-Gate <www.mpsoftware.dk>.
HTH, -- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4 http://peschtra.tripod.com/open_office/ooo_front.htm
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