Barbara First of all, I appreciate your help and your intelligent comments. I am happy to continue this conversation with you but it will have to be one on one after tonight, as I will be unsubcribing from this list forthwith.
Second: Here is my main beef with MS Office: when I open a program such as Word (even in 2000) it loads impossibly slowly. It is also clear that this is not a simple text editor which is what it should be. Every key stroke results in all kinds of shenanigans and I have no idea of what is going on. Also, Word pulls all sorts of crap with formatting which I can't control, inserting tabs, indents, caps where I don't put them and don't want them. It's a total pain in the butt. You mentioned something about security. How can a text editor be insecure, unless it has all sorts of garbage added in which I don't know about and don't want? As I said before, if I could replace it with something lean and mean, which would just get the job done, I would in a heartbeat. Ooo doesn't seem to me to be quite there yet. By the way, are you a developer? Thanks and best wishes, Sandy On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:47:41 -0500 Barbara Duprey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >From my limited experience, the impression I have is that ooo > developers > > seem to arbitrarily implement new features which are inferior to > the > > corresponding features in standard use. A good example is the tree > setup > > for the custom installer. The approach I would like to see would > be to > > start with the standard features of MS office and then explore > what > > improvements can be made. IMPROVEMENTS: not arbitrary changes. > Users have > > plenty of complaints about ms products. The ooo developers should > > identify these and go trom that point. > > > > Sandy > I think the installer has not gotten a lot of attention, > particularly > the custom installer, and it seems to be the source of a lot of your > > difficulties. Most people just accept the default installation and > don't > run into these issues. I agree they should be addressed, but not at > the > expense of deferring fixes/enhancements which are needed for > standard > operations in day-to-day activities. > > My experience over the last couple of years is very different from > what > you'e feeling. Implementation is not arbitrary, but reflects the > information contained in the issue/enhancement tracking system > (which we > can look at and contribute to, including voting for issues of > interest > to us). The approach that appears to me to be taken is exactly what > you > recommend, but OOo is not a clone of MS Office. It has its own > structure, which can affect how things are done. There is a natural > tendency to feel that the way software we're familiar with (and have > > invested a lot of time in learning) does things is the "right" way, > so > anything different is "wrong." Personally, I've found that I can > nearly > always accomplish my tasks as well or better in OOo as I could with > MSO, > once I've learned how OOo handles it. > > We really need to talk about specific features that create issues > for > you, if we're going to be of any help. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________ Beauty Advice Just Got a Makeover Read reviews about the beauty products you have always wanted to try http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/JKFkuJi7UzuncyT00w9a6axe49aZlXQkBtD66wCy2Qc1Zonvx6Xt5C/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
