On Sun March 19 2006 13:01, + martin wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > Dear sirs. > > First of all, let me say that OpenOfficeorg is a fine office suite, and > I like ith very much. Here are a few things that I would like to see > added to it in the future. I realize that some of these things may be > difficult to implement, and take considerable time and work, but I feel > that the effort would be well worth it to add these features. I am not > a programmer, or I would be offering to help with the task. > > 1-A feature similar to the Make-It-Fit feature in WordPerfect. An > example of how this feature works in WP: Say you have a document that > is 1 1/2 pages long, and you want it to fit on 1 page without the font > being too small to be easily read. You use the Make-It-Fit feature > which automaticall adjusts line spacing and possibly the font size to > make the document fit on 1 page. I know line spaceing can be adjusted > in OpenOfficeorg Writer, but to do this manually and get the desired > results is very time consuming. > > 2-The ability to open WordPerfect documents that include graphics > correctly. > > 3-The Base part of the program needs to be able to OPEN an MS Access > database correctly. Not link to it, nor import tables from it, but open > it correctly, including all forms, reports, querries etc...and then save > it in other formats with all functions and parts intact and working > properly. > > 4-A way to convert large numbers of files from MS Word, WordPerfect, > Lotus, MS Excell, MS Access etc... formats to OpenDocument, and other > OpenOfficeorg file formats automatically would be really cool! > > Thanks for taking the time to read my suggestions, and keep up the good > work!
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Sun March 19 2006 23:01, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > On 20/03/2006, at 12:01 AM, martin wrote: > > Dear sirs. > > > > First of all, let me say that OpenOfficeorg is a fine office suite, > > and I like ith very much. Here are a few things that I would like > > to see added to it in the future. I realize that some of these > > things may be difficult to implement, and take considerable time > > and work, but I feel that the effort would be well worth it to add > > these features. I am not a programmer, or I would be offering to > > help with the task. > > > > 1-A feature similar to the Make-It-Fit feature in WordPerfect. An > > example of how this feature works in WP: Say you have a document > > that is 1 1/2 pages long, and you want it to fit on 1 page without > > the font being too small to be easily read. You use the Make-It- > > Fit feature which automaticall adjusts line spacing and possibly > > the font size to make the document fit on 1 page. I know line > > spaceing can be adjusted in OpenOfficeorg Writer, but to do this > > manually and get the desired results is very time consuming. > > There is the option to scale to fit page I believe. Is this what you > want? This happens on printing, not to the actual document content > though, which is where the difference may come into it. > > > 2-The ability to open WordPerfect documents that include graphics > > correctly. > > This is a work in progress. The WP filters have only just come in > with the 2.x version. > > > 3-The Base part of the program needs to be able to OPEN an MS > > Access database correctly. Not link to it, nor import tables from > > it, but open it correctly, including all forms, reports, querries > > etc...and then save it in other formats with all functions and > > parts intact and working properly. > > Wouldn't that be wonderful! If you can convince Microsoft to open up > the MS Access formats to the open source community, I am sure that > every effort will be made to bring this to fruition. > > > 4-A way to convert large numbers of files from MS Word, > > WordPerfect, Lotus, MS Excell, MS Access etc... formats to > > OpenDocument, and other OpenOfficeorg file formats automatically > > would be really cool! > > There is a feature called the Document Converter wizard if you look > in the File menu of OpenOffice.org. It does this sort of work for you > and has done since the early days. > > > Thanks for taking the time to read my suggestions, and keep up the > > good work! > > Regards > Jonathon 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]
