Thanks guys; good information and a couple of leads I needed. Twayne
"Twayne" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > Hi, > > OO.o is great; don't get me wrong. 3.1 is an excellent step too! But > I have a few questions about annoyances that perhaps aren't OO.o > problems but something I am missing in setup or the way I use things. > I know questions should be limited to one per post, but I think this > one really mitigates to be one post. > Please clarify whether the following are "that's the way it is", or, > "There's a setting for that at ... ": > > I hate comparing things to Word because I've come to think of OO.o as > something that stands on its own merit, but it's still the clearest > way to make some points; please forgive the comparisons<g> > > 1. Desktop: > With OO.o, whenever I want the Desktop I have to start at My > Documents, drill up, switch todrive C:, then drill down to docs & > settings, uname, desktop. > Why can't the Desktop have a mirror at the top of at least drive C? > I guess I could switch it to use XP type boxes, but then I lose some > of the OO.o box capabilities. I haven't tried it, but I suspect that > would give me back Desktop as an explorer choice instead of having to > drill down to it. In XP, no matter how deep into a structure you go, > going all the way to the top always brings you to the desktop. I > occasionally put things on the desktop as sort of a post-it, where > it's "in my face" and won't be forgotten. > > 2. Save, Open dialogs and others: > They don't remember the last setting used. Once in awhile they do, > but most of the time I find myself having to continually use the Up a > Level, choose the drive letter and drill down to the same directory I > used last time. > When/how does/doesn't the dialog box/es remember the last used > directory? > > 3. Will printing envelopes ever be straightened out? > It's better than it was and usually as long as the envelope is put > in the printer to defaults, they work in general. But if you have a > different orientation (face up/down; long/short edge first, > centered/right side of tray, etc.) they no longer print properly. > And, it's a real PIA to figure it out on one's own. As soon as I > think I OO.o Writer's envelope methods of dimensioning/positioning > figured it, it doesn't work on the next non-standard envelope I have > to make. > > 4. > WORD, for whatever reason, can create, and properly print, an envelope > of any size withing the loaded printer driver capabilities without my > having to touch the printer or printer drivers themselves. > Writer however seems to measure things from the bottom of the page, > the last part to enter the printer, as opposed to the leading edge, > which is the top of the paper. So, to get it to position things > correctly, the printer must also be set for the exact correct paper > size; it's not enough to let the program manage it. > Will the OO.o methodology ever be more along the lines of hos Word > and any other processor I've used, does it? > Or am I really missing something? I've read multiple articles on > the subject of envelopes and some are good, but ... they conflict > with each other at times and still don't work out for me. And I have > standard, branded printers; HP and Epson. > > 5 Table Boundaries: > Should be shown by default. I haven't met a single person yet to > doesn't think tables, labels etc. are borked because they see nothing > on the page. > > 6. Copy/Paste Web Page content: > OO.o still does a pretty bad job of pasting into it from portions of > copied data from web pages. Usually when I do that I'm copying tech > support types of pages, not overly complex pages and they often fail > the readability test. But I can jump over to Word and do the same > paste and get a perfect copy nearly every time. At the worst I might > have to adjust a table column or two. As a result I finish the task > up in Word. My goal is to rid myself of MS and that gets in my way. > > > Overall they're minor annoyances, I agree, with the exception of the > envelope issues. That one's a PITA. But with all the fantastic work > going on and the stellar capabilities of 00.o, it seems like another > look at some of the basics might go a long, long ways to converting > more newbies over. I haven't yet bit-binned Office 2k2 because of a > couple of those problems; when I'm in the middle of something I just > can't be bothered to stop and work out Writer's issues. > > Anyway, there it is, for what it's worth. I guess my point is, I > think the timing would be excellent to take a look at some of the > basics, the things any user is going to come across right away, and > smooth them out and avoid any surprises or the feeling that a > work-around needs to be found. > Any helpful comments would be most appreciated. I realize it's > entirely possible a few of these annoyances are my own doing, but ... > if that's the case, I can't figure it out. > > Regards, > > Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
