On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:42:43 -0400, RBL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Cristian Driga wrote:
Hi,
Whenever I managed to make someone try OOo, after a short while I got
the same question:
How do you insert page numbers ?
And when I showed the "quick way" of: Insert Header/Footer +
Insert->Fields-> Page number... I got the same response: "ah.. it's too
hard for me to remember".
Shouldn't we solve this thing once and for all and have one Insert
Page Numbering window asking - {top or bottom} ?
MSO made users expect this to be a one step task with options. The
current way of doing it should be kept there...as it allows inserting
other important fields as page count, etc, but we should definitely
have a shortcut for making it easy for the user.
Best,
Cristian
The most wanted OOo function is actually keyboard remapping. OOo would
find adoption rates go way, way up if the app supported standard MSO
shortcuts and keyboarding behaviors. Wordperfect does this. MSO does
this. OOo doesn't.
Having to relearn all the hotkeys kills productivity, especially in
professional writing/editing/publishing departments and orgs.
There should also be some sort of macro converter, so that a good
percentage of VBA logic could be migrated over.
Wordperfect X not only emulates MSO; it also emulates classic
Wordperfect for DOS. All it takes is a click to switch WPX between one
of three different keyboard/menu handlers.
MSO has a degree of this type of support for Wordperfect users, but it
hasn't been updated in years. It was useful in the early days when MSFT
was aggressively working to kill off WP, and made it easier for WP shops
to migrate.
I like OOo, but I gotta' say, it's a bear to move to when you have every
MSO keystroke memorized, and your hands jump to them like a pianist's
hands jumping to a chord.
Why dont you do it? Is not that hard, just get your configuration how you
want it and then copy the file that contains your current definition. This
will be located here on your windows box:
Documents and Settings/Administrator/Application
Data/OpenOffice.org2/user/config/soffice.cfg/modules/swriter/accelerator/en-US/current.xml
the current.xml file shows what kind of shortcut keys you have for writer,
the same will go for calc on ....modules/scalc/accelartor......current.xml
and so forth.
Once having the definition then someone might just create a script to
generate that file or modify the file so it has a windows thing. I
personally dont care much about MSO and I have learned to do it the OOo
way so doing this will work against me really.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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