The problem with F/OSS office suites is that their audience tends to be uncritical, so much as in the fairy tale "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (but in inverse), professionals have stopped listening.
I remember at least three incidents where I was instructed to evaluate Open Office, Libre Office or other F/OSS word processing or layout packages. In each instance, the F/OSS products fell short in fundamental ways, and were a total disaster for larger documents. Their main strength was that it was often easier to ex
As a small aside to your experiences, I found that when using LibreOffice and I want to use the following as a separator: ______________ (that's holding down Shift to get the underline)
in LibreOffice, it creates an entire line across the page whereas in Word 2010, it creates the line exactly as shown. If I try to delete the extraneous lines, the entire line is deleted in LO.
I did do some looking, but did not find a way in LO to stop this "feature" from occurring.
This is why everything except the bare essentials should be turned off in such products. Then, create an easy-to-find menu system for the user to turn on what they want instead of the current way of turning everything on by default and having to turn them off just so one can get work done.
Your comment is a clear indication that this kind of stuff should not be on by default - like auto-completion, which is just annoying, since I can type faster than I can use the auto complete (Thank you, Mavis Deacon)
The automation *is* sometimes annoying. But for that on in particular the FIRST thing I'd try is an underlined tab, with the tab positioned where I wanted the underline to end.
OTOH, as another answer said, you can just turn off the automation. I have some of it turned off already, as it was just too annoying. Other parts I find quite useful, and I would bet that which parts annoy different people is quite different. (I don't like it's automatically correcting capitalizations, as I find that most of it's
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The problem with FOSS office suites (Score:5, Interesting)
The problem with F/OSS office suites is that their audience tends to be uncritical, so much as in the fairy tale "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (but in inverse), professionals have stopped listening.
I remember at least three incidents where I was instructed to evaluate Open Office, Libre Office or other F/OSS word processing or layout packages. In each instance, the F/OSS products fell short in fundamental ways, and were a total disaster for larger documents. Their main strength was that it was often easier to ex
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As a small aside to your experiences, I found that when using LibreOffice and I want to use the following as a separator:
______________ (that's holding down Shift to get the underline)
in LibreOffice, it creates an entire line across the page whereas in Word 2010, it creates the line exactly as shown. If I try to delete the extraneous lines, the entire line is deleted in LO.
I did do some looking, but did not find a way in LO to stop this "feature" from occurring.
This is why everything except the bare essentials should be turned off in such products. Then, create an easy-to-find menu system for the user to turn on what they want instead of the current way of turning everything on by default and having to turn them off just so one can get work done.
Opt in rather than opt out. Sound familiar?
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The automation *is* sometimes annoying. But for that on in particular the FIRST thing I'd try is an underlined tab, with the tab positioned where I wanted the underline to end.
OTOH, as another answer said, you can just turn off the automation. I have some of it turned off already, as it was just too annoying. Other parts I find quite useful, and I would bet that which parts annoy different people is quite different. (I don't like it's automatically correcting capitalizations, as I find that most of it's