Rebecca.L.Frasure at aphis.usda.gov wrote: I know nothing > about OpenOffice.org Writer. Does anyone else?
It's very much like MS Word, in the way it is cumbersome and unintuitive and at least a little bit unstable. I have used it to edit a document created by someone else. The first thing that went wrong was... the Numbering! Mucking about with some numbered paragraphs crashed the program and lost my work. I have also been trying to apply a figure numbering style that includes chapnum, and find that OOo keeps dropping the hyphen from the style definition. The dialog boxes are like Word, in that you have to drill down a million levels to set options. The on-line Help is reference oriented, not task oriented, so you're left guessing at what features exist by what names that will do what you want. In short, it's been every bit as irritating and frustrating as Word, and I wouldn't use it for anything more than memos and very short reports (which is what I use Word for). regards, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "Developers explain How the Product Works. Technical writers explain How to Work the Product." Get Firefox! http://tinyurl.com/8q9c5
