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From: Paul on 18 Oct 2006 16:38
Always good to get feedback.

> 1. Expanded spreadsheet sizes. Frankly this is a no-brainer. Over
> 16,000 columns and 1,000,000 rows is the way to go. OO.o should
> see this and raise the bar with even more columns and rows.
> Frankly, I have a data set that would be usable in MSOffice Excel
> 2007, but not in OO.o--this is something that the OSS community
> must respond to, not by merely matching, but by upping the
> standards even more. When your data has more than 255 columns,
> you can't be happy with OO.o any longer.

It could be said that if you need more than 255 columns or 66k rows
then you shouldn't be using a spreadsheet in the first place. Why in
the world would you be using a spreadsheet if you had 16,000,000,000
cells.

Just a thought / experiment - try adding 1 character into each and
every cell on that spreadsheet (the excel one with 1m rows).

I'm guessing that it would very quickly be unusable. In any event
there is an enhancement underway to look at this issue - 65773

> 2. User interface. Frankly, this is something they got right. I
> don't know how, or why, but it works. The ribbon works. I don't
> think that OO.o should copy it, but come up with something better
> that works even more smoothly. The truth is, it would be nice if
> the menus were still available, but generally speaking, everything
> that I want is in the ribbons. For those of us with widescreen
> formats, however, a side mounted equivalent would be more useful.
> Just a consideration.

Interesting. I've heard alot of anecdotal evidence that it is hard to
get used to and requires an amount of re-training... Will be
interesting to see what the wider public think...

> 3. Templates. I'm sorry, but the community templates for Impress
> (and the standard ones as well) just don't cut it. One really
> cool thing to do on the Windows side would be to detect and
> install MS PPT templates automatically. The template library is
> hugely important.

Apart from the 'automatic' part, you can do this currently. Import the
existing templates into OOo for use. The lack of templates is
acknowledged and there is even a competition underway at the moment to
improve just that (www.openoffice.org).

Thanks for the comments...

/paul

> That probably covers everything that I see as being better--for now.
>
> Benjamin Orchard
>
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