OO copies this same hateful behaviour, as I noticed when I tried to enter
data such as 3.2.1 - does that even look like a date? And why doesn't it
revert back to what I typed when I switch the cell to text?
I hate OO. The only thing I do with it more frequently than watch it crash
is kill -9 it. My qualms with MS are not just the closed nature of the
software, it's also the horrible interfaces. Why did you have to copy that,
OO, why? Why couldn't you decouple the functionality (especially the
importing of Word and Excel files) and make a sane interface as well for
people who aren't switching from Windows, and are only using your horrible
software because they have to work with someone else who is using Word/
Excel?
Also, why do you have to crash every 2nd time I try to export to PDF?
What makes this particular operation so challenging?
If I've been using a particular amount of blank space after paragraphs
and a certain amount before paragraphs, and I've set my spacing to 1.5
lines, why do you think that I want to revert to the default setting
simply because I've inserted a heading?
Why have you made it so complicated to change one page--just one page,
not all of them--to landscape format that I had to write myself a
set of instructions to refer to?
Furthermore, why can't the various parts of your suite work well with
each other? When I want to copy a spreadsheet to a text document, I
might want the option of having it transformed into a table. I don't
actually want it converted into an image which is then squeezed on the
page. If I export it as PDF it looks okay, but then I can't import
it into the text document without first converting it into a fuzzy
graphic. That's because OO can export PDF but can't import it.
I hate that I can't review diffs from my repository in a decent way,
because the data isn't stored in a human-readable format.
If everyone I have to work with would go away, I could use LaTeX and
be happy.
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Mads Ruben Rennemo wrote:
MICROSOFT EXCEL.
You edit my data.
Did you consider that maybe, MAYBE, "8-16" wasn't a date and that you
shouldn't convert it to August 16th? Or perhaps, not edit the DATA so
that I could choose to reformat the cell to "text" and get back to
8-16 instead of 42853? Where the HELL did 42853 come from anyways?
Also, when I save you as a CSV, I expect a line break inside a cell to
be removed or converted. I don't expect to see two 8-column lines in
my 16-column CSV file.
HATE.
