On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:05:50 -0700 "DAC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been a proponent of OpenOffice for some time and have > recommended it to all my clients in the past. I have just loaded the > new beta version and I have to say I am very disappointed with it. > After using it for five minutes there are a number of things I find > annoying enough that I will stop recommending it to my clients in the > future. It's as if you have no idea how the average user is using this > program. Two very simple but highly important issues are setting page > view and page margins. No one I know uses Print or Web views. The > standard Normal view from Word is the standard view with all my > clients. And setting page margins is as simple as going to print setup > and entering the in actual value. We can't use the mouse and cursor to > set the margin needed. We need an exact setting...a number...a value. > And the margins did not import from an old Word doc so every doc now > has to have the margins set graphically by hand? I don't think so. > Not going to happen. We would rather pay for a Word that do all this > work. > > Thanks for nothing. > > David Cambra It must be just a bad day for you David because most of these functions have not changed significantly from OO.o 1.1. Also version 1.1 is still in production, in fact 1.1.5 was only just released on the 14th Sep. So as the saying goes "fill yer boots". -- Michael Those that can, do; those that can't, teach. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
