Comments on OpenOffice.org Ninja: New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1, an Early Look

Oh I almost forgot, to center the images with the ...

2010-01-20T13:12:41.879-07:00

Oh I almost forgot, to center the images with the text tool after anchoring them as characters you just place the cursor right after the image to the right and then you click on the text centering icon and your image will be centered and Writer will stop doing all those crazy things with white pages and jumping images.

I was wondering about what that Keith guy said (on...

2010-01-20T13:03:39.949-07:00

I was wondering about what that Keith guy said (one of the early posts on top) about Writer inserting white pages all over and I wonder if he is anchoring his images to paragraph as Writer does by default because that causes a lot of troubles.

When I started to use Writer I had a similar problem and my images were jumping all over too until I found about this.

I just started to anchor my images as characters and then centering them with the same centering icon that text uses and after doing that my Writer documents stopped doing that completely and it's being working very well ever since.

To remove hyperlink, I don't find the context to d...

2010-01-11T07:58:55.744-07:00

To remove hyperlink, I don't find the context to do so. I have to select 'Default formatting' from the context instead.

How to get the context about 'Hyperlink Management' anyway?

It seems that having a normal view would be the FI...

2009-09-06T16:23:43.432-06:00

It seems that having a normal view would be the FIRST thing the developers did in order to make this product right. I hate the print view so much that I'm just about ready to install my old Office 2002 on my current machine. *_*

impress need a picture can be blurred like MS offi...

2009-08-02T21:31:46.917-06:00

impress need a picture can be blurred like MS office so that it can be a background without having to go to image editor...

Yes, PLEASE, add an "EMACS key-bindings" scheme. -...

2009-07-06T12:37:37.908-06:00

Yes, PLEASE, add an "EMACS key-bindings" scheme.
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I really don't like to take my eyes of the screen to find off-keyboard keys.
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Thank you!
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Y.

Agree with Keif a way back when, fancy stuff is gr...

2009-06-23T09:33:29.321-06:00

Agree with Keif a way back when, fancy stuff is great ... but useless if the basics don't work. So far will still not paginate correctly .... can't imagine that when I look at the calendar!

All I want for Christmas is a bog standard Word fi...

2009-05-22T06:54:25.222-06:00

All I want for Christmas is a bog standard Word file that someone sends me to paginate the same in O-O. Please can it be *this* Christmas?

It is of course appropriate to raise issues for th...

2009-05-08T19:00:00.000-06:00

It is of course appropriate to raise issues for the purpose of improving the product. There is no doubt that there are some bugs and shortcomings in the OOo product. However, when I consider what I paid for it, compared to what I would have paid to get the competitor's product (which of course would be useless on my Linux machines)--- well, I end up being extremely pleased that we have OpenOffice and very appreciative of the work that has gone into it.

"thank you to Sun for taking the time to release a...

2009-05-07T17:13:00.000-06:00

"thank you to Sun for taking the time to release a high-quality product."

Yeah, right. Like they did with release 3.0.0? Releasing the product even though the auto-recovery feature was severely broken, causing a program crash to lose any changes since the last manual save. The issue was found in the beta but was released anyway. (bug 92968) You sir, are an ignorant ass kisser.

Modify track changes using balloons on the side, j...

2009-05-07T01:40:00.000-06:00

Modify track changes using balloons on the side, just as you did with the notes, and the option to choose synonyms when you right click on a word, and I switch to open office right away.

Wayland, your comment is absurd - that OOo uses ot...

2009-05-05T05:29:00.000-06:00

Wayland, your comment is absurd - that OOo uses other keystrokes than those used in MS Office disqualifies it for serious users as little as the fact that those used in MS Office differ from their counterpart in OOo disqualities the former. If you find MS Office more convenient for your needs, by all means use it, but attempts on your part to arrogate to yourself the right to determine which office suite is best suited to «serious users» are merely risible....

Henri

Open Office Writer is fine for people who only occ...

2009-05-05T03:03:00.000-06:00

Open Office Writer is fine for people who only occasionaly use MS Word. However there are so many differences with things like keystrokes and clipart that it's unsuitable for many serious users.

Outstanding product, and we use it exclusively. S...

2009-05-04T10:51:00.000-06:00

Outstanding product, and we use it exclusively. Sure there are issues, but heck - I have more issues with VISTA than OOo. All in all, we have found it to be a MS Office killer - period.

Impress--it would be completely usable to me as a ...

2009-04-16T04:21:00.000-06:00

Impress--it would be completely usable to me as a scientist once the antialiasing is sorted.
Calc--Already use and find it very good for manipulating data in CSV files and writing back, in fact much better than excel.
Writer--Unfortunantly a no go from the start as you can't easily put a heading into the Endnotes section, also the compatability with word doc file format is limited to say the least when you have document with extensive refs and cross references along with footnotes and endnotes + TOC and headings, which is a normal document for me.

Overall I would love to move away from MS Office, but can't for the reasons above, which to me is a real shame. But I have hope for the future. Good work! to all the team at OO. OO isn't a professional office suite yet but its getting there slowly.

adding the spell check dictionary is turning out t...

2009-04-14T23:42:00.000-06:00

adding the spell check dictionary is turning out to be a real pain in the butt!
Not to whine but if I install it in english doesn't it stand to reason that I want the english dictionary installed and working?
I got as far as downloading the dictionary and it's sitting there in the Extension manager but I CAN'T GET THE LITTLE LOCK TO APPEAR!...this has me tearing my hair out, what's worse is it's probably something simple like a check box somewhere I can't find or something.
Overall very nice 3.0 OOo running on winblows but AIUGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I swear to God I'll donate $20 to OOo if they add a check box IN THE INSTALL to add and hook up the dictionary!
U/Linux has been getting easier and I still love it....3 UBUNTU boxes in the house, one Winblows left and as soon as it starts getting buggy it's getting a lobotomy.

Comments on thgis get sent to me for the next while if anyone cares to point me in the right direction.

"...we decided to dump OOo and buy new licenses of...

2009-04-02T00:19:00.000-06:00

"...we decided to dump OOo and buy new licenses of Microsoft Office for everyone in our company."...awww, I'm sure the Open Office people will miss all that money...wait!...Open Office is free...so they won't care! Keep forking it over to M$, have fun!

"...they're going to do better with the basics."...ok if your sooo perfect, get your ass in there & code!...

I would prefer not to have the "new" file locking (just use 2.0's) or no file locking at all...if I open the same file again, that means I want to SEE the version currently on disk, to compare with the opened, unsaved, version...but I understand in a network environment you need file locking to prevent more than one person from messing up a file...but you still need a way to open even a locked file & either 1) open it read-only...2) save as & work on your own copy...3) automatically notice that I might wanna compare it to the unsaved version...

re: Bug fixesI say it's too little, too late. We w...

2009-03-14T14:44:00.000-06:00

re: Bug fixes

I say it's too little, too late. We were moving to OOo until that ugly file locking issue reared it's head.

As a result of the file locking bug that you mention in your article, we decided to dump OOo and buy new licenses of Microsoft Office for everyone in our company.

If OOo wants to think they can be a "Microsoft Office killer" - they're going to do better with the basics.

Some features are pending since years, like, by in...

2009-03-13T15:46:00.000-06:00

Some features are pending since years, like, by instance, change the default color, line type etc.. for autoshapes in Impress. Some users, like me, are crying for it for years. The vote system does not work. It stays like this and people like me loose hours of work.

Assuming there is no stupid idea, here is mine:
What about people paying a contribution to have their 'dream feature' implementing, assuming it can be a standard one that would stay in the product later. In my case, I am ready to send a small amount for this for such improvement.

you can not only reply to notes inside 3.1, but al...

2009-03-10T17:38:00.000-06:00

you can not only reply to notes inside 3.1, but also do regular find and replace inside them

To me the biggest turn-down in Writer is the lack ...

2009-03-03T17:16:00.000-07:00

To me the biggest turn-down in Writer is the lack of "balloons" for deleted text when tracking changes. I hate the strike-through text mixed in with the rest of the text, it makes it unreadable. I hope this is introduced soon.

Other than that, great work on the improvements!

Such a shame that the basic layout still hasn't be...

2009-03-02T04:02:00.000-07:00

Such a shame that the basic layout still hasn't been changed to stop wasting so much space. All that's required is how the print will look on the page, not the page itself. Of course, you can see it as a web page, taking away lots of the wasted space, but then you can't see the page structure, can't see where page 1 ends and page 2 starts.
Maybe one day it will be done properly.

Anonymous regarding normal view: Register for an a...

2009-03-01T16:13:00.000-07:00

Anonymous regarding normal view: Register for an account in the Issue Tracker and add two votes for issue 4914. You can monitor that page's "target milestone" to see when the feature will be included: currently it has no target milestone.

So when will we finally have a "normal" view in Wr...

2009-03-01T16:08:00.000-07:00

So when will we finally have a "normal" view in Writer, instead of only the "page layout" and "web" views? This is what has made me stick with word for years (and the fact that I absolutely need Excel, although I admit that for most people Calc should be completely ok).

Someone ripped your article: http://bjknows.com/ne...

2009-03-01T08:29:00.000-07:00

Someone ripped your article: http://bjknows.com/news/linux/808-openoffice-31-preview