Peter,
Thanks for your comments. My points not from a complete dope, I know MS
Word backwards, but sorry for their being too short for comprehension.
The essential point, which you may contest, is that most people you want
to bring onto OOo are hardened MS Word users, so the more that the
functionality can at least use that as a jump-off point the better.
Styles: it is not consistent to have numbering and bullets as separate
items in the general formatting options, but then to put bullets under
numbering in the style dialogue. Even so, I am not sure that there is a
way of putting a bulletted style under the numbering option in the style
dialogue. Maybe there is. But it's not obvious nor clear. I overall
found it hard to make a style bulleted, which should, one would think,
be wasy. The MS Word control over styles is more complete and more
intuitive.
As for search, I would like, as per MS Word to search and replace for
formatting only, above all styles: but this was not so easy. You say
it's in 'more options', I had thought I looked there, but evidently not.
Again, not quite so easy as MS Word in my view.
I have now fatefully switched to Apple Mac, so for now, I think these
questions are a bit abstract (the version of the OOo for Mac is the old
one, methinks); but I will soon dual-boot to Linux, and get the new OOo
back.
Thanks for your help, and thanks for your stupendous work. I am not just
whingeing here: I want to see MS buried long before I am.
Best wishes,
JM
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
John Manoochehri wrote:
Hello,
John --
First, thanks for your comments. OOo needs as many comments as possible.
Secondly, a little friendly critique. Your suggestions, to me at least,
are too vague. I will explain under each point, but try to more specific
and explain what you did.
Thirdly, I believe both of these things are possible. Before you post a
missing feature, please make sure it is missing. There are many way to
get OOo information without too much work.
1) Use OOo help.
2) Go to <<documentation.openoffice.org>>. Search the *docs*, *FAQs* and
*How To's*. Many questions are already answered.
3) Scan the mailing list archives for related messages. You can search
the users list here <<http://tinyurl.com/6edyk>>.
4) Use Google or other search engine.
5) If these fail, then ask on an appropriate list.
These tips are expanded upon at <<http://tinyurl.com/3qy4k>>.
Now, to the line by line...
The styles funcionality in the Beta of OoO is funny, and thereby
annoying, in two respects:
1. You can't include bullets as part of the style! (Or if you can it's
not at all obvious.)
In the format properties dialog, have you tried clicking the /Numbering/
tab? You have to have a numbering styles (with bullets), but that is
just good form.
2. You can't find/replace by style.
What kind of style do you want to search for (there are 5)? You can
search for paragraph styles at a minimum.
At the bottom of the search and replace dialog, click more options then
styles.
I wonder if anyone is looking at that (not that I can, but they would
be great features for OoO 2.0)?
People do read this list, but most won't respond without more detail in
the original message.
Best wishes and thanks,
I would suggest checking out
<http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/writer/draft_pub/0206WG-IntroductionToStyles.pdf>
HTH,
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