Monday, June 4, 2007 Dear Community, my friends,
OpenOffice.org_2.2 Writer wishlist: A very little fix would solve a very big problem. This is the most compelling enhancement request. It costs me more effort than you will imagine, partly due to my writing style, to continually find my way back after moving in a document; and it very often happens unexpectedly because of using the laptop touchpad accidentally and landing God-knows-where. To stop and insert a bookmark, then use the Navigator, or having to use ^f and recollect unique contents to type in, is so much more difficult than a simple COMMAND TO RETURN TO THE PLACE OF THE LAST EDIT. Under MS-Word, which i used for many years before my last three or four years in the Linux community, just one keystroke returned to the place of the last edit: F5. When there is no first line indent, we have to know where the paragraphs break, without wasting paper (forest!) by adding vertical space. It would be so very nice to navigate to beginning of a paragraph. MS-Word did this by ^¡ü and ^¡ý. Writer uses these for moving paragraphs up and down, and has no command for moving to the start of a paragraph, moving up or down by paragraphs, just as we do with PgUp and PgDn. You may already be aware of an erratic difficulty when terminating italics. Even after a space, cancelling future italics may cause the preceding italicised word to revert to Regular font. 27 times in a row. I¡¯m using Linux under Windows Vista because a salesman EMPHATICALLY ... and mistakenly ... told me that openSUSE 10.2 could be installed on this ASUS series 9 laptop. It didn¡¯t feel right at all to demand the money back, because he¡¯s an innocent, young family man saving for long overdue eyeglasses, and he used Linux in the old days when it was all command line; but it hurt deeply to break loyalty with Linux. However Vista is working beautifully by and large, and i¡¯m principally using Linux programs anyhow, OpenOffice.org 2.2 and the Gimp. But here is an enhancement request for OpenOffice Writer when used with Windows Vista. Under beloved openSUSE it was very easy, no problem. Under Windows Vista, please add Favourites icon to the Open File (^O) dialogue box. Opening files is slow and awkward because no such thing is there. Vista¡¯s Favourites folder is designed for use with the Internet, not the home folder. It is easy enough to work-around many of their mind-structurings and in this case to place whatever shortcuts are wanted in the Favourites and Links folders, either of which would serve in the Open File dialogue box. There is another hardship caused by Vista. Their browser (Windows Explorer) Search box functions as exquisitely as Kerry Beagle (Linux), but is virtually useless for me, because most of the time i¡¯m looking for phrases in *.odt files. Now, their sly trick is that, according to the list of filters, indexing is set to include OpenOffice word-processor files and contents, aforesaid *.odt. But in fact Search only finds terms in MS or *.html files. Thanks to mentioning this to you, i just found it in the OOo 2.2 Help Menu: ¡°Find ¡ª the Full-Text Search¡±. So you¡¯ve already solved that problem for me, my brother or sister. Thank you very much. I am so grateful to Linux community for the good heart, as Dalai Lama calls it. This is the first time i¡¯m using the Wishlist opportunity. Sorry i haven¡¯t found the longer list i was keeping on the old computer, which included many bugs that have been completely repaired (TO YOU OUR GRATITUDE!!), and also i am promising to send a donation as soon as timely, from a true desire to do so. One thing i can ¡®donate¡¯...is to communicate and empower anyone who has a mystic longing. Absolutely nothing wanted, except earnestness. Your well-wisher, Nityanandi -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
