I find it slightly amusing that people get something for free and then choose to complain that it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that they want or they might have to take an extra step to do a function. I find Microsquish every complicated and expensive. Every time they come out with a new verson it is a sales tool for the office suite Larry Phillips -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 6/17/17, Dayvid Artman <drart...@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Open Office Writer Critique To: users@openoffice.apache.org Date: Saturday, June 17, 2017, 5:09 PM First of all, it is annoying and seems a bit arrogant to force me to open my email in your browser to send this message when I already have my email open in a different browser. I also don't like the fact that said browser removes (or at least hides from me) my signature stored in the email service. But those are not the reason for the message. You have a function for working with tables that seems to have no useful purpose, but the title given to it would be quite useful, and there doesn't seem to be any way to actually do what the name of the function implies. Microsoft Word has a function with nearly the exact same name, and it functions as the name suggests and is very handy. The function in question is “Distribute Rows Equally”, and it is found under the “Table” menu in the “Autofit” sub-menu. I read the Help on that topic, and it functions exactly as described, but for no benefit that I can imagine. The similar “Distribute Columns Evenly” operates nearly identical, different only in that it is limited by the page size, while rows are not. What the function does in make every column (or row) match the largest one in the selection. I can do that in several different ways without using this function, and the name does not suggest that such will be the outcome. It isn't “distributing” anything, it is simply expanding each row to the size of the largest. What I want to do (and what the name implies what and Microsoft does) is distribute the rows equally or evenly within the area of the rows selected. The final table would occupy no more, no less, but exactly the same space as the original, but the spacing of the rows would all be the same. This supports providing as much space or as large a font as practical while keeping a consistent look and staying (for example) on one page. There is no easy way to do this that I know of without a command such as this. I must somehow measure the total space that I want the finished table to occupy, then manually divide that by the number of rows I want, and then size each one to that size. Given certain scenarios, one could do that last step en mass, but the first two steps are cumbersome and tedious. The computer could do that in a moment, just as quickly as it does what it does now, but with far more benefit. I strongly urge the team at Apache to consider making this design change. <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#m_2364816453849307028_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
