On Tue April 11 2006 22:57, + Lucas Momparler wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using OO114 fot the last 3 years and not needed MS Office at > all. OO Is great. However, there are some suggestions I have. The > suggestions I write are for OO114 and might be already corrected in further > versions. I am not updating OO because in my experience with free source > software (Linux Mandrake) are that the newer the version the more bugs. > Honestly I am little skared to update my OO. So here are my suggestions > based on OO114: > > 1. I don't like automatic actions as word completing and auto formatting. > They always disturb and never help. Tools -> Autocorrect -> options
> 2. when I save the docoument as HTML the formulas saved as images are very > very bad quality, specially square roots. This is what happens when data is exported. > 3. I make a drawing in Paint, copy-paste it to a *.sxw file and then copy > paste from the sxw back to paint and the image sometimes looses quality. It > is tough when you spend hours doing diagrams in Paint and save them only in > the sxw file and then realising there has been permanent quality loses. It is always a much better idea to keep the original artwork saved in the appropriate format and only do the copy/paste when "exporting" the image. > 4. I get bored each time my computer needs to open openoffice. It is slow. More memory helps with this a lot. > 5.OOCalc I can't merge a double cell with a third cell, I need to Unmerge > the first two to merge all three together. This could be automatic since > the process I do manually is allways the same: > select->unmerge->select->merge. This is a known feature. > 6. compatibility. The biggest problem I > have as OO user is when people give me a doc,ppt,... file. I cannot open it > properly. I bet this is the biggest problem most OO users have. Therefore I > believe it is important to solve this. This is solved by upgrading to OpenOffice.org 2.0. You can have booth OOo 2.0 installed and OOo 1.1.5. -- Please reply to [email protected] only. Normally [email protected] is the best list to ask questions about using OpenOffice.org -- CPH : OpenOffice.org contributor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
