Elmo Vigiani wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam
thanks for your superb apllication (Open Office).
I am testing your suite and I am delighted for this experience.
I have only a comment to make if you permit me.
I am using Microsoft Excel and Word mainly and I am thinking to migrate
toward Open Office.
However I could not find one feature for both programs which will definetely
compromize my decision because it is extremely important for the work I do.
When I open a document and press preview page, I cannot see any option to
drag the margins anywhere (top,bottom,left and right).
This feature, exising in Word and Excel since long time ago, is very useful
to customize the margine by dragging the lines wherever you need and
expecially if you use headers and foothers.
Please tell me that this is not a bug and I missed it.
It is guaranteed that should I migrate from Microsoft to Open Office, I will
make a donation to support you at all times.
Elmo,
In OpenOffice this is neither a bug nor have you missed anything. It
simply isn't a feature of OOo to be able to adjust margins in the print
preview. OOo has a different design philosophy to MS Word and Excel. OOo
is based on styles, which is a more modern approach, where the workflow
involves creating styles, applying them to new or existing pages of a
document, and then adjusting the styles whenever attributes, such as
margins, need to be changed. Used properly, this can be a more efficient
way to work. It's something that beginners find easy to learn but which
experienced users can find difficult to migrate to. Word, having a more
extended ancestry, is more a "physical" page editor I think and, hence,
being able to do this in the print preview seems natural to Word users.
It is, of course, possible to adjust margins via the rulers in the
normal edit view, and to apply (or not apply) those changes to the
current page style so that all pages with that style are magically
modified as well. But I must admit that I have sometimes wished I could
do it in the print preview (but not recently).
Perhaps if you describe the work you do that uses this feature, others
on this list will be able to suggest alternative methods.
Ross
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