https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38093
--- Comment #27 from Cougar Brenneman <[email protected]> ---
In the migration from one system to another, my comments have been lost, but I
have been very vocal about this need. I want to echo the previous commenter:
The outliner in Word is so superior to anything similar in LibreOffice that I
will never use LibreOffice until something as good is present here.
In the 1980s, prior to the wide acceptance of Word, I wrote all of my magazine
articles for eight years using a primitive outliner named PCOutline. The
outliner functions were so absolutely important to me that I was not tempted by
anything else until I was convinced that Word's outliner was actually an
improvement--for instance, because I could use a mouse for editing.
I'm always concerned about what I would do if I no longer could use Word's
outliner, so I've made a study of everything I can find. WPS Office from China
is an okay outliner, and if I were forced to choose between LibreOffice and WPS
Office, I would choose the latter because of the outliner.
The functions of an outliner that I love:
1) I can brainstorm in text points and then drag and drop these brainstorms
into headings that I generate on the fly.
2) When a heading gets too bloated for convenient dragging and dropping, I can
collapse it and continue dragging and dropping until the job is done.
3) Within each heading, I can create subheads and organize the points in that
heading into the subheads through dragging and dropping.
4) I can create subheadings to nine levels, collapse all of the text points,
and organize the entire document by dragging and dropping. When I move a
heading with collapsed text, all the text goes with the heading, as well as all
of the children subheadings.
5) I can easily switch back and forth between outline view and draft or print
view. When doing so, formats of headings and text are preserved, but all
collapsed text and subheadings are visible in the draft or print view.
6) Word outliner view allows all text to be collapsed to a "Show First Line"
view. In this view, I see only one line for every paragraph in the document.
This enables extremely efficient reorganization of paragraphs.
The benefits of an outliner which I will never abandon for a straight word
processing program:
1) Brainstorms can be quickly organized to a very granular level without any
loss of time.
2) Documents can be totally reorganized in seconds or minutes.
3) Outliners replace project management software by enabling whole project
planning, detailed subproject planning, and efficient integration of all
levels.
4) To-do lists do not become obsolete, but just get reorganized into the new
plan.
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