L. B. Cebik wrote:
As a new user, the OO feedback system is too complex and too programming oriented to track. Also, as a simple user, I have no time for heavy involvement in discussion groups. Hence, I am using the simplest most direct means I know to register two items of concern.
This is a discussion group of volunteers to answer problems that users encounter in respect to OpenOffice.org. To present in problems or ideas directly to OpenOffice.org you or someone must use their issue tracking system.
Writer--so far, it does all that I need except one thing: In Word, I could program from the special character screen free key combinations such as ALT+[key] to handle regularly used special keys, such as portions of the Greek alphabet used in text references to equations. I do not find this facility in Help or on the special character screen. (Incidentally, the equation maker is superior, very like the old WP DOS version.)
You can create macros for special keys, but the best answer is to set alternate keyboards in your operating system (for example, Microsoft provides a virtual Greek keyboard) and switch between them and/or use a keyboard editor to create alternate keyboards to your desire. Such keyboards will then work in almost every application. The Windows keyboard editor is available free at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx . You may also find http://www.cardbox.com/quick.htm provides a free, useful utility called Quick Unicode Input. This last does not work properly in Vista.
Calc--I hate wizards because they use an abnormal language relative to standard graphing notations and do not allow full control by virtually instantaneous means to all aspects of the graph appearance. Why not consider--as an addition perhaps--going back to the system used by Quattro Pro 7 and earlier in simply allowing entries to specify ranges for X and multiple Ys, with access to all graph appearance facets (color, point and line sizes, all label fonts, etc.) with a separate storage area that allows one also to place a graph on the data page. I shall continue to use QP7 under Virtual PC for spread sheets that result in graphs (transported to Paint Shop Pro for final annotations) until all of the wizards die of old age.
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