On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 09:30, Steven Liauw wrote:

> 1. It will be better in my opinion if OpenOffice use a tab system when 
> opening more than one document. So, there will be only one Window, but 
> several "tabs" open.

For OOo 2.x, there is a macro that provides tab features.  For word,
it  almost works.   It doesn't work for Calc.

>that is very powerful is the Reveal Code

For OOo  1.x and 2.x  there  is a macro for word, and a different
macro for calc, that provides similar information to that provided by
WP's reveal codes.

> It's basically a way to let users see the "code" underlying the document.

That feature had to be included in WP, because of bugs related to how
WP implemented styles.  Not only is OOo  not a stream editor, but it
also uses a different methodology for implementing styles.

>This way, a user can quickly find out why the document is not displaying as he 
>wants.

a)  The only reason a document does not display what the person
expected, is becuae the person was not using  styles properly.

b) If  you configure the formatting toolbar correctly, and know what
the attributes of the styles that you use are, you can obtain the same
data as that provided by WPs reveal codes.

> It also allows the user to see where certain codes are, such as the page 
> break, the margin, etc.

The best improvement to OOo would be  to remove the  ability to
display the formatting  toolbar.  Removing all toolbars, requiring
keyboard commands would improve both the  functionality, and  ease of
using OOo by several orders  of magnitude. (It would also mean that it
was a11y --- which is something that both MSO and  OOo currently
fail.)

jonathon

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