Hi. I've inserted some comments, FWIW. Mike Couling wrote: > > I've been using OOo Calc for about a week now. I've had it installed a > while but have only started trying it out after a particularly > frustrating session with Excel. Even though it's new to me and I've been > struggling with some of the differences (e.g formula syntax) I'm still > impressed and will definitely recommend it. > > I posted a question asking where comments/suggestions (rather than > problems) might be directed - it seems the best place to start is here. > I'm very aware that my comments stem from Excel comparison but try to > take them seriously nevertheless. Some comments will probably be due to > my ignorance of the settings available in Calc, but here goes :- > > - when you have a single file open, there is a close button at the top > righthand corner of the sheet, but no resize button. With multiple files > open, there is not even a close button. It's sometimes useful to be able > to resize multiple files so that they can be viewed side by side. >
I can resize and close individual windows on Linux. I'd expect quite an outcry if you could not do that on M$ windohs, so I suspect there is something wrong with your installation. Check your download: http://download.openoffice.org/2.1.0/md5sums.html > - using the Edit/Find & Replace option the "Current selection only" > tickbox is on the "More Options" panel and seems to be unticked by > default. I'd suggest moving it to the main panel at least. > Perhaps. I think the default search should include formulas AND values. There are probably a number of changes that others would like to make. Good luck. > - similarly, in the Sort Dialog the "Columns have headers" tickbox is on > the secondary panel and quite hidden as 2nd in a list of 4. I think the > option deserves more prominence. > The options are often missed, especially by anyone gullible enough to use the toolbar icons. The difficulty with getting changes like this made is finding a programmer willing to work on the issue. > - there doesn't seem to be a Most Recently Used file list on the File > dropdown. I suspect that is something I can set myself but I haven't > found it yet. > There must be something wrong with your installation. File >Recent Files is standard. > - my mouse scroll wheel only scrolls one line per click. Is there > somewhere I can set it to scroll one window as it does in all other > applications? > That sounds like a job for the window manager. I know of no setting to change mouse behaviour in OpenOffice, using the GUI. > - I very often copy & paste columns of data to text files for external > manipulation. A column copy puts all 64K rows on the clipboard > regardless of how many are used. Could it be changed to only copy the > used rows as in Excel? > Selecting the whole column is very useful for applying a cell style to the whole column. I would not like to see that changed. Calc is not Excel, which is the main thing it has going for it. > None of this is criticism - there could well be good reason for things > being the way they are. I'm keen though to try and make an excellent > product even better. > > Best wishes, > Mike > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Calc-suggestions-tf3201965.html#a8897089 Sent from the openoffice - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
