On Monday 01 December 2003 14:39, Yosef Leibovich wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >* Some of OpenOffice's stronger points were not represented [fill in
> > please]
> The reason those points weren't filled in is quite simple, there aren't
> such points.
Just one example -- The floating style editor with lets you view and change
all style attributes in one tabbed dialog (paragraph, character, numbering
etc.) save me a lot of time. In MSO (didn't check 2003) it is split in
seperate dialogs, burried deep under the "Format" menu (note that I do
not refer to style selection [from the bar in both MSO and OOo] but to style
editing).
IIRC, in (old) SO-5.0 this dialog used to have an Apply button (in
addition to Cancel and OK). This was very convenient to "test" without
closing the dialog. I don't know why this feature was gone (or maybe
my memory is failing).
So, while I'm sure Yosef is right that latest-and-greatest-MSO has more
bells and whisles than current OOo:
- There are counter examples (I gave just one).
- Most (non-techie) users use only a small (and common) subset of the
features either OOo or MSO has to offer (E.g: how many of your
"simple-users" use styles at all?)
And if Yosef tries to impress anybody with a feature battle... I'll draw
my favourite "office" package ---- TeX (can you say "Turing-Complete" ?-)
Cheers (and read the signature this time, it's relevant),
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