-------- Original Message -------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:07:51 EST
Hi Dave
Hi Neil
I am not sure on what research you base the statement "This is an extremely unusual and cumbersome method of creating a new document and not one that many users would normally employ" but it is certainly a way that I use at times and don't find cumbersome.
I wouldn't describe my experience as "research". It's just that over many years I have trained or assisted hundreds of people, with varying degrees of experience, in the use of computer software, including OOo. In the process I have had the opportunity to study the various options users choose to perform similar actions. While I am aware of the method you describe to create a new writer document, I have never seen any of these people voluntarily choose this option.
I describe this method as "cumbersome", because it first creates a a file which offers to be (re)named and then has to be opened (eg double click). The same is true for MS Word documents created by this method. To me it just seems much more straight forward to open "swriter.exe" from a shortcut, but it's the user's choice, so each to their own.
Regardless of the way the document is created it should be consistent.
I am partly in agreement with you on this, but I don't know what function Windows is calling when it creates the file to be opened. By the time the file is loaded into Writer, the document structure is already established. From my cursory perusal of and experimentation with the OOo command line parameters, I cannot find anything that creates a file with the original OOo default document structure. Hopefully one of the developers will pick up your issue and explain how this is happening.
Dave
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