Hi, On 07/12/2010 09:12 PM, Pratik Anand wrote: > This is a post related to usability of Open Office Suite. > [...snip...] > There are few elemental things not available in Open Office which makes its > use little more rough > > Most important being, Inability to change slides with arrow keys . > I don't understand why OO people are not implementing this simple feature. > Is there a copyright issue or programming difficulty (?) > Not quite sure what you are speaking about here. Arrow key navigation to go previous/next (left/right arrow key) works for me with OO 3.1 on my Fedora 12 system, in slideshow mode. Is that what you were referring to ?
> Second being, compatibility with MS Office 2007 files (esp. .pptx). With > these formats being more than 3 yrs old, it should start supporting it > fully. > > Open Office 's saved ppt files change in orientation and design when opened > in MS Office, not talking about templates (can be really troublesome). > If you could please point me to the complete documented specification for the format for the .pptx file, I'll make sure the good developers at OO.org implement all the features and interoperability you request. > Few more smaller issues. > > > Note: this post is not made for criticizing OO , rather it points out woes > of users who want to shift their workspace in open source but are still > facing difficulties. > One of my recommendations to those who start using OO is to use it on all platforms. OO on windows behaves pretty much the same as OO on linux. Also, secondly, although as an office suite OO is _similar_ to M$ Office, it is not the *same*. There is a learning curve to be productive in OO as there is in M$ Office. Spending sometime looking for documentation, especially something that points out differences[1] between the environments. cheers, - steve [1] Quick google gave me these: http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/office_guides/microsoft_office_to_openoffice_migration/ (there is a section named General Differences In Use) http://documentation.openoffice.org/searchresults.html?cx=008361175193398611882%3A_wx829jglzo&cof=FORID%3A11&q=migration+guide&sa=Search&siteurl=documentation.openoffice.org%2F#866 I have no clue how good they are though. -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
