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Dear Roland

It reminds me of that Guinness Ad on "Cold Guinness" where the barman says "your the 15th person today I've told that there is no call for Cold Guinness".

I remember the 1st time I saw Lotus Smart Suite, this chap had just 2 files - Private and Business, he opened up the private one and inside were group tabs saying [+Gas], [+Electricity] etc - it thought "of course", it was like a Eureka moment.

Ask any other software user to find a current client document from 6 months ago let alone 10, 20 years ago!; And of course if you have a client called "Fred Bloggs" you don't have to think up new file names each time you send a new letter such a "fred_blogs_fax_17_06_11_reply_London_office".

I am assuming the "they" you refer to, is IBM

thanks

John B

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On 17/06/2011 15:20, Roland Hughes wrote:
If you visit the bug report site, you will see I have filed several bugs
on this issue.  They cannot implement WordPro tabs until they implement
WordPro windows for documents.  Right now they have taken the brain dead
Microsoft approach of having each document as a tab.


On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 14:56 +0100, John B wrote:

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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From: John B<johnb@email2.me>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 10 June, 2011 12:20:01
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Feature request - area?


Is there an area where Feature Requests are posted?

John B

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