NoOp said,
> On 12/28/2008 05:10 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: >> On 12/27/2008 11:37 PM, NoOp wrote: >>> On 12/25/2008 05:10 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: >>>> Dr. Gustav Jacobsen wrote: >>>>> I would like to write on whole pages (instead of using the mouse >>>>> and arrows). Like in MS Word. >>>>> Unfortunateley I could not figure out where to post the request >>>>> and have given up for good. >>>>> >>>>> ... > > Well... using Optimal, and turning off View|Ruler (turns off the left > & top rulers) does just that same with the exception of a 1/2 inch > break between pages. View|Web Layout provides no page breaks at all. > > I doubt that a 1/2" page break vs a 'dotted line' page break would > make much of a difference & if so, then I reckon that Dr. Jacobsen > should just stick with MS Word or a standard text based editor. It's no show stopper, but as a big user of both programs, now almost exclusively OO.o, I find the breaks between pages pretty annoying. You not only have the space between the pages but you also have footers, headers, biblio refs, probably page numbers, all sorts of things that actuall cause the discontinuity to be a lot more than about a half inch, especially with pages that don't have text all the way to the bottom of the page. And then there's the inadvertant "jump" in the screen as the display goes from one page to the next and the previous page is just off the screen. I don't care that Word handles it; that's nothing but one definition of what I'd like to see happen. Whether Word does so or not, I'd really like it if OO.o did so, expecially when trying to vet documents onscreen where real estate is always an issue regardless of resolution and screen dimensions. Web View is OK and functional too, but then you lose some of the formatting, which can be important, since the width suddenly jumps to web page width, not Letter or A4 size width. Beyond widow conrtol, etc, often with sime types of articles, authors specifically plan text so it fits a certain way within a width's area and you lost that with Web View. Like I said, IMO it's not a show stopper, but it is sure a big annoyance, in my case anyway. Add that to OO.o's inability to properly format envelopes you have a very irritating scenario. To me, those are two very large problems that OO.o Writer at least, should address and soon. Even if it takes a complete rewrite of a section or two of code, the envelope problem is large enough that it becomes unproductive to stop and finesse a new envelope template every time a different envelope comes along. I have met several secretarial types who have refused to use OO.o because of that limitation, and a few unhappy ones who weren't allowed to refuse. I've made a few of the standard enevelopes in my spare time, but ... I can't toss out Word because most of the time I don't have the time to stop and design additional templates just for an envelope. Every word processing program I've ever used has had an easy way to create an envelope without user intervention as long as it was a standard sized envelope. I really can not understand why at this late stage of the game, that situation still exists. OH well; them's my 2 ยข anyway. Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
