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From: Robin Laing on 10 Apr 2008 14:05
Jeremy Evan Sundgren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using OO writer and calc for about a year now personally
> and as a medical professional. I have found these areas to be key
> areas where improvement would vastly improve usability.
>
> I apologize in advance if any of these have already been corrected or
> if my understanding of OO writer is simply too limited to know how to
> make these areas work as I would like them to work.

Some of your requests have been made before and in many cases, the
issues are not OOo's but the manufacturers of the software you mention.
Remember that OOo isn't just a Windows program.
>
> 1. Work with Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking so that DNS can
> search OO writer documents to add words and learn writing styles
> using the "Add words from your documents to the vocabulary" feature.
> Not being able to read OO docs greatly increases a DNS users'
> "training" time with DNS.

Have you contacted Nuance on this issue? The OOo developers do not have
access to the Dragon Naturally Speaking source code which makes it
pretty hard to get DNS working with OOo.

>
> 2. Work with Stedman's Dictionary so that Stedman's dictionary
> software can be utilized in OO docs. It can in MS, but not OO. I
> haven't tried Stedman's Spellchecker software yet, but if that
> software couldn't open up OO docs, it would greatly decrease the
> usefulness of OO for me as well.

Same as with Dragon Naturally Speaking. Contact the developers to
provide the source code to be worked on or get them to provide an OOo
version.

>
> 3. Make it so that users can easily upload entire txt file
> dictionaries into OO. Typing in single entries just isn't
> economical. I've created new OO dictionaries, but after multiple
> searches for these new dictionaries to copy and paste old txt
> dictionaries into, I still haven't been able to find where OO stores
> the new dictionaries.
>
> 4. Make dragging and dropping an entire column or row possible in OO
> calc a reality. Creating a new column, copying, pasting, then
> deleting the old column is cumbersome. OO calc also won't allow me
> to insert and shift to the right entire columns for some odd reason.
>
> 1-4 would be the best improvements. Sadly I have decided to switch
> back to MS for now because of the current limitations mentioned
> above. I'd love to see OO make improvements in these areas. Again I
> apologize in advance if it is simply my understanding that is
> limited. Below are listed some other minor areas that could be
> improved.
>
> 5. Make it so that the bottom paragraph tab in OOW can be moved
> without having to move the top tab as well. My formating is
> sometimes different than the standard, so this would help.
>
> 6. Make it so that page format margins can be adjusted without
> affecting the entire document. I.e. make it so that individual page
> margins can be changed individually.
>
> 7. For new users, changing OO Calc to OO Table would make better
> sense to me.

Tables mean data base tables. I would be confused, at least for awhile.

>
> 8. Make borders of headers and footers separately adjustable. And
> make text that is written outside of header or footer filed (because
> of its length) selectable by cursor.
>
> 9. Make it so that commas can be inserted into mail merge address
> block and spaces can be removed.
>
> 10. Keep the page text from jumping up or down when selecting text
> when special toolbars are used by making the toolbar stay on or stay
> off, rather than appearing as needed.

This is adjustable now. You can have toolbars work in different ways.

>
> Thank you for allowing me to provide you this input.
>
> Evan Sundgren, DC
>

The best place to provide your input is on the OOo web site. You can
submit the request for enhancement there.

http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html


Also, as I mentioned earlier, contact the manufacturers of the software
that you want to work with OOo to make this happen. They have access to
the source code for OOo but the OOo developers don't have access to
their code.

--
Robin Laing

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From: "Bob Long" on 17 Apr 2008 07:15
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Jeremy Evan Sundgren wrote:

[..]

> 4. Make dragging and dropping an entire column or row possible in OO
> calc a reality. Creating a new column, copying, pasting, then
> deleting the old column is cumbersome. OO calc also won't allow me
> to insert and shift to the right entire columns for some odd reason.

From: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.4.0.html#mozTocId18278

Select one or more columns or rows, or a range of cells, and hold down Alt
while moving the selection with the mouse. When the mouse button is
released, other cells/columns/rows are moved left or down, to insert the
selection. Before this feature, target cells always were overwritten.

--
Bob Long

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