On 05/05/2008 04:50 PM, kesavan ram kumar wrote: > Dear Sirs, I have been using Openofffice.org writer for about an > year or so. > > I also have the Openoffice.org (ver 2.4). > > For the last two decades or so, I have been using various text > editors available in the field (for both programming and letter > writing). > > However, I find that Microsoft Office Word has the following unique > feature- which is not available in any other document writer incuding > Openoffice.org. > > I do not mean to hurt or insult anybody. I only want to point out the > lacunae in other document writers). > > > Well. For students of medical transcription and legal coding, MS > Office Word has a special feature called Window. (This option is > available under “File Edit View... etc., - when you open the text > editor for document writing). Using this module and other options > contained in it, we can compare the original document associated with > a voice file in 'side by side', 'split' and 'cascading' modes > (original document and the copy created by the user - one below the > other) – while listening to the associated voice file. > > After all, only on comparing, can we find out the mistakes we make > when we listen to the voice file and key in words and sentences – > which is essential to get accustomed to the accent (American, > Australian, British,etc.). > > Students of medical transcription and legal coding badly need this > feature. > > Hence, we are forced to buy either the pirated version of Microsoft > Office (which is quite risky when you use internet for browsing) or > spend heavily for buying original licensed version (which is quite > high in India). There is also this threat of buying a duplicate > version presented as the original version. > > How nice it would be if only Openoffice.org writer had this “window” > feature also (as described above). > > Is it possible to incorporate this feature also in the next version > of Openoffice.org Writer? If so, please let me know about it. > > If that can be done, many students of medical transcription (like me) > will be very happy!
I am unaware of that 'feature' in MS Word Can you advise if this is actually a standard feature in Word (and if so which version(s), or you accomplish this via an add-in? Note: You have been cc'd on this reply as you have posted to an open OOo mailing list. Please see: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for details and how to subscribe or view the archives so that you may see responses from other OOo users. Please *only* reply to [email protected] replies back to my personal email address will be discarded. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
