30 July 2013 Dear people at Open Office, I will try and keep this simple, I have a suggestion for a feature for your spreadsheet package. (I have no idea which email to send my suggestion to, so I am sending it here, Please pass it on to the correct department).
This is for a planning function, All it requires is the ability to rotate a spreadsheet about 30-60 degrees counter-clockwise. Perhaps you are familiar with Gantt charts as a planning aid. Below is one I copied from the internet, (© Ralph Lengler & Martin J. Eppler). You will notice that there is a lot of wasted space in the top-right and bottom-left corners. rotating it would just make it easier to print out and display. to show what I mean, I did the following... (using Coreldraw, sorry, I am not prepared to spend days learning the open-office drawing package, just to draw one diagram). The chart above describes a set project with a decisive start and finish. The system would have more use where planning is required for a continuous process, (the number of 'items' stretches indefinitely,) Perhaps it may be easier to achieve the same, by extending the print function, by selecting the relevant cells, rotating them to a suitable angle then printing (or displaying). As i said, just a suggestion. regards Dave Patel.
