[libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles

On 4/29/13 12:43 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> In MS Office styles are an excessive waste of time.  You just have to accept
> that documents will have changing fonts, bullet-point sizes, misnumbering
> in lists and even changes in language used by spell checkers.

Are you saying the styles area a waste of time, or Office?   LOL

When I first got started with Office, and got into styles, the program 
was a total mess.  Often I couldn't even save a doc without Word 
crashing, and way too many times, I would lose half of a document. 
Sometimes, I even had to start over.

Then a new version came out, and things worked pretty good, and once I 
got a handle on styles and formatting there, I can't say I had any 
problems.  I'm talking about writing various in house plans.  It was 
also an Office only environment.

LO, on the other hand, baffles me more than Word ever did.  I have to 
own up to not working very hard with styles and formatting yet.  Have no 
reason to learn it, and haven't taken the time to just sit down with it.

But, just last night, found an issue with outlines in the current 
version.  And it's a situation that should never have happened, and 
should have been fixed long ago.  I've seen enough of these recurring 
things that I've started looking at alternatives, including commercial 
suites.

As I noted in private email, LO still has not assigned two bugs I filed 
to anyone yet.  They are classified a low priority.  As I mentioned, the 
issues are *not* low priority to me, so if they don't want to fix them, 
I'll pay for a program where the developers do care to fix the low 
priority issues.

> In LibreOffice just start by using the default ones.  Don't even set-up new ones.  Instantly
> you see a rise in quality and productivity.  Then show how changing 
the defaults ripples
> through the whole document but keeps it looking very high quality.>
> The problem is that people have become so accustomed to the poor quality of documents
> that anyone insisting on higher quality is seen as a fuddy-duddy, 
someone to ignore and
> ridicule even if that person is in authority.

+1

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Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.3
Firefox 20.0
Thunderbird 17.0.5
LibreOffice 4.0.1.2


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