I hate the automatic formatting in Openoffice, it's so annoying, MS
Word is such a refreshing respite from the restrictiveness of OO.
It's a prime example of a software made un-userfriendly by loading it
with too many functions and features. Should just have a basic
wordprocessor with all the bells and whistles in categories with their
own menus and toolboxes. Most people don't use them anyway, only anal
office staff with time on their hands!

problems I'm currently having in simple word processing:
- inability to do wordcount on selected text (a basic, basic requirement!)
- when you copy and paste the autoformatting means you can't even
delete to rearrange the text to where you want it!
- ...plus it pastes it with all the rubbish from the website or source
you pasted it from instead of just the raw text.
- ...plus you get it in a range of gay colours, and just changing it
back to black is a fiddly process.
- paragraphs and indentations are a waste of time, there's no rhyme or
reason, they just appear when and where you don't want them, and you
have to fiddle, fiddle, fiddle to get them anywhere near, total
dissatisfaction
- I hate "Times New Roman"! I want to set my own default text!
- speaking of text, I can't paste in funny alphbets like Japanese and
Thai, this is the 21st century for feck's sake!
- takes an age to load compared to MSword

in short, it's just crap. it needs redesigning from a user POV rather
than a coder's POV.

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