Peter Reaper wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton on 31.05.2005 22:01 wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 18:12 +0200, Peter Reaper wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton on 31.05.2005 16:25 wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 15:19 +0200, Peter Reaper wrote:
Some things that still "bug" me about OpenOffice:
1. The page ZOOM toolbar button needs to be a dropdown selection,
instead of the more cumbersome separate dialog window.
It is already. You are looking in the wrong place for the dropdown.
I looked around and couldn't find a toolbar button with a dropdown
selection. Care to back up you claim with some facts/instructions?
Right click on the zoom factor in the status toolbar. Voila, a dropdown.
Right-click? in status bar? How many normal users would ever in their
wildest dreams discover that? Is OOo to compete with Word and
wordPerfect or is it intended only for zealots and �ber-geeks? If it's
the latter, then I'm wasting my time.
From help:
"To change the zoom factor, double-click the percentage value on the
Status bar, and select the zoom factor that you want."
Perhaps the right click should be added to help.
Further, there is a button on the toolbar that will bring up the zoom
dialog.
Your posts are proving to be less and less constructive as they go. It
/is/ possible that no one thought of this before, you should file and
RFE if you think it is a good idea as you have been told. Furthermore,
just because OOo isn't like Wordperfect, Word, or the way you like it,
doesn't mean it is a "bug".
Most of us here try to be productive & constructive, and not just
criticize. If you think there is poor documentation, help write it. Join
GRS's team or oooauthors.org.
Finally, if a user (not sure what a normal user is) couldn't figure it
out, they would come here for free help. Where do you go when you want
to figure out an option in Word? Buy or book or pay of MS or get no help
at all.
OOo *IS* competing with Word & Wordperfect. I will never spend another
dime on either product. I am neither a zealot nor and uber-geek. I took
two seconds of my life and figured out how OOo was different (and IMO
better) and I moved forward. I learned about the program, the history,
the people, I helped out a little, and then I tried to file some RFEs
and bug reports to help.
Try to do a few of these things before you call the people here that
volunteer to provide free help names and lump us all together as zealots
and uber-geeks.
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