[discuss] Open office, a godsend and a nuisance?

[chris....@pcc.edu]

Hello to those at open office or those in discussion of open office. I'm a student and i love using open office, i love what it represents, i love how it works and compaires to word, but i want to address something i think is long overdue in addressing; And i'm taking a break from my finals study to address it because it is so annoying it makes open office go from a godsend to a nuisance.

When you are working on a document, nothing, i repeat, nothing, is more annoying then when it tries, in all friendly intention, to edit the document for you. The most important of these auto-editings to address here is simply when you are numbering something, and it FORCES a space, about tab size, before each of your numbered lines. In word, i believe there is a little helper that pops up at the bottom of the screen, that when scrolled over gives you the option to disable this nuisance from hell. In contrast, open office forces you to investigate the matter like a technician, and has the most disgusting, albeit detailed, options window, that anyone simply wanting to disable the autonumbering option will cringe at seeing.

CAN it be made, that an update could allow for simple, nearly AUTO disabling of this auto-nuisance? I'm crossing my fingers and going back to studying. On another note, thank you for reading and thank you for an amazing program!

Chris

[Cor Nouws]

Hi Chris,

chris....@pcc.edu wrote (8-12-2009 12:53)

> I'm a student and i love using open office, i love what it
> represents, i love how it works and compaires to word, but i want to
> address something i think is long overdue in addressing; And i'm

> [...]

Thanks for all the compliments. Pls spread the wOOord :-)

> When you are working on a document, nothing, i repeat, nothing, is
> more annoying then when it tries, in all friendly intention, to edit
> the document for you.

> [...]

Apart from the individual settings (a), there is the powerful generic
possibility to turn it all of in one action (b).

a.
- Tools|Autocorrect (up until version 3.0)
- Tools|Autocorrect options (version 3.1 and higher)

b.
- Format|Autoformat|While typing (up until version 3.0)
- Format|AutoCorrect|While typing (version 3.1 and higher)

Hope you are happy to use those.

Best wishes,
Cor

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[Gordon]

Just the same as MS Word then.....THAT has some horrific annoyances as
well....

[Cor Nouws]

Gordon wrote (12-12-09 18:05)

> Just the same as MS Word then.....THAT has some horrific annoyances as
> well....

Not really...
Anyway, in the MsWrd versions that I know of, there is no such
convenient one-tick-turn-off-all option as in OpenOffice.org Writer.

Ciao,
Cor

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[Bruce Martin]

Dear Gordon:

I agree, auto-complete is frequently a nuisance, as it ass a judgemental
application. Like all applications that make judgemental decisions or do
diagnostics, they are trouble prone and always will be.

A computer has no real intelligence! Only a human being has that. Hence
there are many decisions that they cannot make effectively, especially when
they would need to deal with a large hierarchy of pre-existing information
to do so.

This is what has made OCR, Vectorisation, and certain other applications
problematic and difficult and expensive to develop.

Example: If I scan, OCR and reconstruct a large text item, I find I spend
about 25% of my time scanning, 25% of my time in the OCR (using ABBYY
sprint), and 50% or more in the reconstruction, largely in word, except that
I may have to edit the extracted graphics in Photoshop elements or Gimp.

I may also have to crop and scan the graphics separately, in order to get a
rendition suitable to include in the final document, as I would not want to
scan a lot of stuff in 600 D.P.I. colour when I don't need or want the
colour for the text (but do need the 600 DPI for good OCR).

The graphics can go in 300 DPI colour very nicely, since that is enough for
the human eye when this is printed. Exception: If there is a need to crop
and enlarge, depending on the crop ratio, I may then need to scan at a
higher resolution, crop and then enlarge, trading resolution for size to get
what I need.

Best regards,

Bruce Martin

Just the same as MS Word then.....THAT has some horrific annoyances as
well....

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