Yes, Roberto, there are features in LibreOffice - Writer included - that
seems complex to me. If you use MS Office's Word, it seems that most of
their options and functions are very hard or confusing to me. The may
be just me. Of course, I have seen course listings that are dedicated
to learning the more complex options/functions within Word and other MS
Office packages. One regional college offers [or did] a Master Degree
in the use of MS Office. To me that means that most users do not use
most of what MS Office has to offer.
On the LibreOffice side of the market, Writer was designed for the
"average" Office user. Sure, there are some complex functions added,
but to me they are options/functions that the "average" personal and
business user wants/needs to use sometime.
I use Writer more often as a Poster and Flier developer than use it to
type multi -age text documents. I use to do more text with images
documents, but now it seems to be images with some small amount if text
involved with adding info based on the image.
Before my strokes, I use to type 10+ pages every day, for both work and
pleasure needs. Now my fingers have a heard time typing 4 or 5 letters
in a row correctly. I am told that my brain "goes" faster than my nerve
damaged fingers [brain and finger damage issues] can type.
So, I can say correctly that I am not one of the "average" users. I use
Writer mostly, and some Calc documents. Impress, Base, Draw, and Math,
are almost never used for me now. One day, I will need to relearn
"frames" like you use in newspapers and magazines breaking the text up
to be viewed over multiple pages. I use to know how, after I stopped
using Adobe's PageMaker 7 - and Windows as well.
I do hope you have success with your thesis. My last one involved the
pros and cons of various networking options - i.e. coax vs. twisted pair
cables vs. optical fiber vs. wireless, and the combined use for very
large office and manufacturing facility. Mouth-full but after the first
50 to 60 pages it was easier to continue to the 150 page mark wanted by
the professor and the one term only creation requirement. At the end of
the courses, the 150+ pages per course were combined into one very large
document explaining, and adding to, what was taught over the several
years of computer networking and related classes. I was really glad
that I had a desktop computer to do the work. An older friend had to
retype his 1000+ page thesis several times on a portable typewriter.
On 07/31/2017 01:15 PM, Amazing Doppler wrote:
Dear Users
My name is Roberto Pizarro Mendoza. I am currently researching for my
Information Technology graduation project titled “Integration of Adapted
Usability Techniques in LibreOffice Writer Open Source Software Project”
at
the Autonomous University of Madrid, with the knowing of some experts
developers and designers from the LibreOffice community, like Samuel
Mehrbrodt, Michael Stahl or Heiko Tietze.
As users of LibreOffice Writter, you will probably have noticed that some
features are not easy, fast and accessible to use. This research aims to
provide empirical evidence to resolve some usability issues with which the
LibreOffice Writer community is unfamiliar. To be able to do this, we need
your help. We would like you to respond to a survey in order to identify
the characteristics of the possible LibreOffice Writer user profiles.
If you would like to collaborate, please send me your e-mail address. At
the end of the survey, the responses will be analysed. The results of this
analysis will be shared with the LibreOffice developer community to
improve
the LibreOffice Writer user experience.
The survey is anonymous and will take no longer than 12 minutes to
complete. We would very much appreciate it if you would take the time to
complete the survey. Thank you very much in advance.
Survey Link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScN0GSHLLViW_kwmaDW7O3GSdKfO6A8jfiOtdGTWOlEEsumCg/viewform?usp=sf_link
My email is: robpizarro112@gmail.com
Regards
Roberto Pizarro Mendoza
--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems?
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be
deleted
Privacy Policy |
Impressum (Legal Info) |
Copyright information: Unless otherwise specified, all text and images
on this website are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
This does not include the source code of LibreOffice, which is
licensed under the Mozilla Public License (
MPLv2).
"LibreOffice" and "The Document Foundation" are
registered trademarks of their corresponding registered owners or are
in actual use as trademarks in one or more countries. Their respective
logos and icons are also subject to international copyright laws. Use
thereof is explained in our
trademark policy.