>From: Robert Shaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [users] The OO Help System >To: [email protected] >Hi Everybody, > >First let me say, "Great job everybody working on OpenOffice." It is >remarkable how good this application is. I wouldn't be bothering to make >these comments if I didn't think to was worth my time.
Greetings: I too hold the OpenOffice and NeoOffice crews in the highest esteem. That's why I hope my wild recommendation here in no way crimps or nicks their due pride and efforts and product. In my old Amiga 500 days (1986) we had this nifty super desk accessory which allowed you to entirely "reprogram" your keyboard for any program by acting as an interpreter layer between the user and the application. You could assign F1 to a different key or even have it run a multi-operation macro or set of such. You could have Amiga WordPerfect behave just like the word processor Excellence with virtually zero learning curve in readjusting to a new keyboard or hotkey layout, with all deep-level multi-key action sequences wrapped up into a simple menu and a single hotkey or two. This said, I'd dearly like to see (and pay for!) a third-party (not the OpenOffice crews and sideline their efforts) create a kind of programmable OOo "shell" which would contain preset or recordable macros containing most of the more obscure and complicated operation sets required to make OOo perform a task. This "shell" should be as intuitive to use as say, Mac's "Mariner Write" or "Nisus" and require the minimum desk top accessory menu to do the job. I'll stand back now and take my lumps. James Greenidge --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
