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On 4/29/2011 5:37 PM, Paul Temple wrote:
Hi - yet again.
First, a reminder that I said (my intro email) that (to me) OO is not
intuitive. Looks to me like a techie solution written for techies (as I
said before, I was a techie and then managed hundreds of them for years,
so I think I know a techie-centric solution when I see one!).
So, why invent a solution that is more difficult than whatever already
exists? Answer = Probably because some people so hate Microsoft (let's
be honest, OO is really only competing with Microsoft because nobody
else has a significant chunk of the market yet, though Google might one
day) that they refuse to do what they've already done. But surely this
is no valid reason to offer me a solution that's less efficient???
I wouldn't say OOo is really competing with Microsoft. They're offering
an alternate solution that is free.
Proof? Take spreadsheets. You copy a cell using Control C and then you
paste it. In Excel you hit Carriage Return (one click). In OO, you hit
Control P (two clicks). And this is intuitive or efficient? Come on,
it's taking me 100% more time to do a single action, so it isn't even
slightly efficient, and it's hardly intuitive to expect me (a user) to
think that a process would require me to do something that is patently
inefficient!
Your example appears to be wrong. I use Control-C to copy a cell and
Control-V to paste it somewhere else in both Excel and Calc. Control-P
in Calc brings up the print dialog box just as it does in Excel.
Then formatting. MS Word is not exactly elegant but it works. I am
still struggling to determine exactly how to format in OO. No matter
what I do, I struggle to discover what works and what is consistent
(i.e. does the same wherever it should). I can't remember specifics
and, if you've seen my other email, you'll recall that I'm still
waiting, hang on a mo, ah yes, just 1 day left now (!!!), to complete my
download of OO so it'll be a while before I'm able to install anything
to find out what examples I can give y'all.
The formatting toolbar in OOo 3.3.0 works well for me.
Well, that all I have for now.
Bring out the virtual stocks and put my virtual head in them so that
people can throw virtual rotten apples at my comments. I'll virtually
suffer any punishment for my sinful comments :-)
Cheers all.
Paulindr
Neither program is intuitive, IMHO. I've been using both for many years.
The Office 2007 ribbon took some getting used to, but the keyboard
shortcuts from earlier versions still worked.
Bill
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