This is a comment regarding the printing out of a spreadsheet sheet page. I would like the default behaviour to be more like Microsoft Office.
This OpenOffice aspect needs a proper rethink as it is extremely illogical, and very involved. The Microsoft method is much better.
Can you please give me a scenario and tell me how you do it in Excel.
Let me be specific, You want to print information from 3 different sheets. You want cells B2:C4 on sheet 2, you want all of sheet 3, and you want cells D5:P8 & E6:I9 on sheet 4, but you want those on separate pages. How would you do that in Excel?
To print you have to go through three areas of the menu to sort things out.
Only if you are doing advanced things. To print you Go *File > Print*. The only part I find annoying, and you didn't mention it, is that you have to click /advanced/ to indicate that you only want to print the selected sheet.
To see how the page breaks are set up, you have to use 'View' - 'Page Break Preview'
What is wrong with File > Page Preview?
To set up the page print areas, you have to use
'Format' - 'Page' and 'Format' - 'Print ranges' where in the latter there are a few confusing options. This part of the page print setup is
very confusing to understand, and often takes a few minutes to sort out. Printing from a particular sheet requires a lot of thought and pressing of menu options, and is not intuitive.
Print ranges is a bit confusing, but there is great documentation for it at oooauthors.org.
Also, you only need to use print ranges when doing complex things.
To get near to printing, you have to use 'File' - 'Print' which is logical.
The trouble is, setting up printing and print areas is all over the place, whereas on Microsoft Office its all in one place, and much more logical in its layout.
Personally I would like it obvious as to which sheet is being printed out, and it is better to automatically default to the sheet I'm looking at for printing.
Agreed, there is an issue about this, but the # escapes me.
Using Microsoft Office, I don't have to think too hard to print out the sheet I'm using - on OpenOffice it's very involved, and
it shouldn't be.
If you have suggestion, you file and RFE. :)
Thanks for the input. The printing is a little confusing, but usually the people that need the advanced features are able to figure it out. Documentation is being written for v2 to help.
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Thanks! -- Peter Kupfer -- Using OOo since 'OO4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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