Hi :) I think the example might not have been a good one but the point was valid. There are a ton of features that almost no-one will ever use and some that almost no-one would miss. On the other hand sometimes people stumble onto a feature they would never have thought about and from then on find it immensely useful.
With MS Office it's been postulated that around 80% of the features almost never get used. Of the remaining 20% some never gets used by some people and other parts never (or rarely) get used by others. I'm not sure if there has been a formal study to prove it or to get precise percentages. From what i see around me in most offices i would say that it's more like 95% never gets used until people have been on training courses and maybe start making more use of less obvious features. I am not sure what the percentages would be for LibreOffice or OpenOffice but the idea of having Extensions to keep obscure functionality available but out of the way of most people seems a brilliant way of handling it and enables companies to have their special in-house extras less tied to a single instance of a single program. Hmmm, all this is waaaay off-topic for this thread though! Regards from Tom :) On 16 December 2013 02:13, Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/15/2013 08:58 PM, som wrote: >> >> On Sun, 15/12/13, Anton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.1.3 >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Sunday, 15 December, 2013, 3:19 AM >> The actual computer magazine c't >> compared >> OpenOffice and LibreOffice and come to the >> result that the new versions of LibreOffice (4.1.x) had >> more features than OpenOffice. >> (but often unneeded like the work counting ... never >> understodd who needs >> such features I never was asked how many words a my document >> contains) >> >> --snip-- >> >> actually i am very glad to the devs for the word count feature. most of >> the indexed journals (eg, lancet, bmj, nje etc) specifically mention the >> number of words your document should contain. e.g, abstract of the article >> should be within 300 words; original article 3000 words and like that. so, >> word counting feature is definitely not "unneeded" for me! >> >> regards, > > > I know of a few writers and an editor. Having to have access to a word > count option could really help. We pay you for 3,500 words and you give up > 3,450 - not good, not good. Of course then you use the word count to help > with the final book size. An average of 300 words per page for a hard cover > and between 260 and 350 pages in the book is a good guide, but having a true > word count would be better. Your manuscript almost never will have the same > page, paragraph, and text formating as the finalized book from the > publisher. Having every tool that helps you write in the format and the > size that you editor and publisher wants/needs can be very important for a > beginning author. > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
