Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

Tom

Thanks - I have posted the request  below  today - I will let you know 
if I get a response.

I note that on the new IBM Lotus Symphony Web site - this has to be the 
most angered and fought for request (1000's), but IBM have now disowned 
its own software in favour of making the new cut down 3 progs suit "not 
compatible", OOo used to!, but LibreOffice have taken up the challenge 
in as much as LO can read the files - although the original formatting 
is a bit hit and miss.

>>>>>>>>>>>

[wish-list]

/There must be 10's of thousands of Lotus Smart Suite users who use 
Lotus Wordpro who cannot move (locked in) to any other software because 
of a brilliant internal tab filing structure within wordpro. This is 
where you can put standard tabs inside Group tabs.

Because Libreoffice thankfully support Lotus Smart Suite documents (and 
IBM no longer do), you would be the natural inheritor for all these folk.

At the moment I am not aware of any other software that even have tab 
documents within a Word processor so you would be unique.

One tab can be for any amount of pages (also called a division).

The beauty of tab documents is that in one file you can have all the 
documents for say one client, one book etc. laid out in say years +2011, 
+2010 ..... +1995 or chapters etc. and inside (by clicking the +) the 
group tab opens up and you can have inside other tabs for all that years 
correspondence or headings or whatever etc).

Now by having them all in one file, then a document produced in say 2000 
is not archived or deleted as every time a new document is added the 
whole file is updated to the current date, so backing up by current date 
massively improves.

I have files on current clients that go back to 1991, the "+" means that 
it is a "group tab" and that there are other tabs inside (and maybe more 
inside them) etc., Hence its an effective filing structure to handle 
multi documents.

I have group tabs that go like this "+1990's" > "+1991" > "Contracts" > 
(then a single tab "12/03/91"

Hence, you can also go straight to a division, click on it and Print it 
as a separate item. You can copy & paste, insert, you can move a tab, 
(like making it the 1st or last page(s) in a document.

The problem now is that if a Wordpro document, fully tabbed with say 10 
- 1000 Tabs and by transferring it to LibreOfice it just becomes an 
unmanageable 10 to say 10,000 pages, with no structure.

Managing large documents or many documents over a long period of time 
becomes achievable with Tabs (divisions)

I would have thought that this would be useful in any word processor. 
Please consider this

Thank you

John Brassington
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On 10/06/2011 14:42, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> This guide might help?
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
>
> I think i would post as a normal bug but put "" at the start of the
> subject-line (unless the guide has better advice!)
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
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