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. Wirter? If that can be done, many students of medical
transcription ( like me) will be very happy!
Thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Ram Kumar.
