Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

Hi :)
To some extent it is inevitable that people adapt to new ways of doing things 
because different software makes certain things easier.  Many people struggled 
with Word when it first appeared but it has become ingrained into mainstream 
society.

Many people used to touch-type with 2 hands adding in formatting as they typed 
through certain key-combinations.  In Word this is practically impossible.  
People have grown used to either 

1.  typing a bit, reach for the mouse, move back to the keyboard and try to find 
position often losing track of where they were on-screen and off-screen
2.  typing 1 handed with the other hand on the mouse often spending ages trying 
to work out where certain keys are on the keyboard and how to reach them 
efficiently and then losing their place in the document they were working from
3.  typing chunks of a document and then going back to add formatting later.

I remember Word-Perfect in one office that had a keyboard overlay so that you 
could see what the function-keys did.  Of course proper fast touch-typists were 
unhappy because they don't look at the keyboard because it slows down the typing 
or allows errors to creep into the document.  Another office had a list of the 
function-keys actions down the side of the monitor.

Word has many ways of doing things that appear easy and intuitive but that make 
document creation slow, clumsy and error-prone.  In mainstream society we are 
very used to horrible errors in documents and seldom even notice them these days 
- unless the document is created by something we are trying to find reasons to 
slate.  OpenOffice/LibreOffice often produce much higher quality documents by 
avoiding many of Word's formatting errors such as switching styles randomly, 
perhaps languages switching back into USA again despite global setting and 
program setting being set to local languages.

Is change always bad?  Ideally we get to keep working the way we are familiar 
with while having access to better ways that we can learn gradually, at our own 
pace.  

Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Gianluca Turconi <public@letturefantastiche.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 5 May, 2011 8:35:28
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

Il 05/05/2011 9.14, Gordon Burgess-Parker ha scritto:
> This particular file is not readable by ANY version of OO or LO because
> of the silly way the creators made it.
> What they did was to create a huge text box and insert all the images
> inside that text box. WHY they would think of doing that heaven only
> knows....

So should the user adapt his/her work behavior to the software?

I really don't understand your statement.

Regards,

Gianluca
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