G. Roderick Singleton schrieb:
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 09:10 +0200, Markus Plötz wrote:
Hi,
are there any usability checks for openoffice-programs?
What do you mean? Usability to me is High contrast, screen
magnification, text to voice. I get the sense from the stuff below that
this is not what you mean at all. Please explain.
Indeed I havn't ment these points. I've ment research regarding what
users intuitively do to get something done - how is this called? In my
case, I just wanted to create a new textbox. So I went to the menu
"insert" (or "add" don't know how it is called in English, I use the
German Version) and found picture, movie, object, table, ... but no
textbox (in powerpoint it is exactly in that menu). So I went to help
looked for "textbox" and found a keyword that didn't help at all
("Formular") and which even is not placed where help has described.
How do you add a textfield in impress? I've created a new total empty
presentation and there is no way to add a new textfield. Help menu
doesn't support this item - there is a link to a topic called
"formular", that doesn't exist - this is ridiculous ...
Learning a new product can be difficult; however, Help does help
See Help > Contents > Index > Search term > adding;text frames
I'm quite experienced with powerpoint and have never read a doku, there
you find everything without reading.
Sorry for my wording but I find this unbelievable: There is no way - at
least no easy way - to integrate text into a presentation! What are
programmers thinking if they publish stuff like that?
See the above Help and do consider checking the doc project for manuals,
HOW-TOs et cetera before getting out-of-sort.
Don't know if people are willing to work like that. Moreoften they will
change to other products - like me I've produced my presentation in
powerpoint again. But you're right shouldn't have sent a mail like that,
sorry.
Markus
