Hi :) To some extent it is inevitable that people adapt to new ways of doing things because different software makes certain things easier. Many people struggled with Word when it first appeared but it has become ingrained into mainstream society.
Many people used to touch-type with 2 hands adding in formatting as they typed through certain key-combinations. In Word this is practically impossible. People have grown used to either 1. typing a bit, reach for the mouse, move back to the keyboard and try to find position often losing track of where they were on-screen and off-screen 2. typing 1 handed with the other hand on the mouse often spending ages trying to work out where certain keys are on the keyboard and how to reach them efficiently and then losing their place in the document they were working from 3. typing chunks of a document and then going back to add formatting later. I remember Word-Perfect in one office that had a keyboard overlay so that you could see what the function-keys did. Of course proper fast touch-typists were unhappy because they don't look at the keyboard because it slows down the typing or allows errors to creep into the document. Another office had a list of the function-keys actions down the side of the monitor. Word has many ways of doing things that appear easy and intuitive but that make document creation slow, clumsy and error-prone. In mainstream society we are very used to horrible errors in documents and seldom even notice them these days - unless the document is created by something we are trying to find reasons to slate. OpenOffice/LibreOffice often produce much higher quality documents by avoiding many of Word's formatting errors such as switching styles randomly, perhaps languages switching back into USA again despite global setting and program setting being set to local languages. Is change always bad? Ideally we get to keep working the way we are familiar with while having access to better ways that we can learn gradually, at our own pace. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Gianluca Turconi <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 5 May, 2011 8:35:28 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read Il 05/05/2011 9.14, Gordon Burgess-Parker ha scritto: > This particular file is not readable by ANY version of OO or LO because > of the silly way the creators made it. > What they did was to create a huge text box and insert all the images > inside that text box. WHY they would think of doing that heaven only > knows.... So should the user adapt his/her work behavior to the software? I really don't understand your statement. Regards, Gianluca -- Lettura gratuita o acquisto di libri e racconti di fantascienza, fantasy, horror, noir, narrativa fantastica e tradizionale: http://www.letturefantastiche.com/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
