Hi,
I've been using OO writer and calc for about a year now personally and as a
medical professional. I have found these areas to be key areas where
improvement would vastly improve usability.
I apologize in advance if any of these have already been corrected or if my
understanding of OO writer is simply too limited to know how to make these
areas work as I would like them to work.
1. Work with Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking so that DNS can search OO
writer documents to add words and learn writing styles using the "Add words
from your documents to the vocabulary" feature. Not being able to read OO docs
greatly increases a DNS users' "training" time with DNS.
2. Work with Stedman's Dictionary so that Stedman's dictionary software can be
utilized in OO docs. It can in MS, but not OO. I haven't tried Stedman's
Spellchecker software yet, but if that software couldn't open up OO docs, it
would greatly decrease the usefulness of OO for me as well.
3. Make it so that users can easily upload entire txt file dictionaries into
OO. Typing in single entries just isn't economical. I've created new OO
dictionaries, but after multiple searches for these new dictionaries to copy
and paste old txt dictionaries into, I still haven't been able to find where OO
stores the new dictionaries.
4. Make dragging and dropping an entire column or row possible in OO calc a
reality. Creating a new column, copying, pasting, then deleting the old column
is cumbersome. OO calc also won't allow me to insert and shift to the right
entire columns for some odd reason.
1-4 would be the best improvements. Sadly I have decided to switch back to MS
for now because of the current limitations mentioned above. I'd love to see OO
make improvements in these areas. Again I apologize in advance if it is simply
my understanding that is limited. Below are listed some other minor areas that
could be improved.
5. Make it so that the bottom paragraph tab in OOW can be moved without having
to move the top tab as well. My formating is sometimes different than the
standard, so this would help.
6. Make it so that page format margins can be adjusted without affecting the
entire document. I.e. make it so that individual page margins can be changed
individually.
7. For new users, changing OO Calc to OO Table would make better sense to me.
8. Make borders of headers and footers separately adjustable. And make text
that is written outside of header or footer filed (because of its length)
selectable by cursor.
9. Make it so that commas can be inserted into mail merge address block and
spaces can be removed.
10. Keep the page text from jumping up or down when selecting text when
special toolbars are used by making the toolbar stay on or stay off, rather
than appearing as needed.
Thank you for allowing me to provide you this input.
Evan Sundgren, DC
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