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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 13 16:58:07 -0800 2005 ------- Yes, I think we all understand how to get two windows on the screen at once, but I think that we all also think that this is no substitute for a real split screen feature. To me, there are three principal drawbacks to this method: 1. It takes a lot of work (although I suppose that someone could write a nifty macro do to everything, but in the absence of such a macro it's simply painful to "pseudo-split" the screen in this way); 2. It takes up too much screen real estate. 3. Resizing the windows is painful. When editing long documents (which I often do for several hours per day) I resize the split window several times an hour. I confess that almost always I now edit such documents in Word. This is not to suggest that Word's split-screen feature is perfect, far from it, but it's much better than anything we can do right now in OOo. OOo2 has made great strides and is now for many purposes a realistic alternative to Word, because it actually handles quite complicated .doc documents rather well; maybe by OOo3 we'll actually have something that does all the Word stuff as well or better than Word. Looking in the bugzilla archives, I see that essentially every feature I've noticed where OOo is weaker than Word has been requested for enhancement, so I'm hoping that the development team is going to take those requests to heart for OOo 3. As others have noted, it would certainly be nice to have a target milestone for this feature. The lack of good split-screen editing is the principal reason I can't recommend OOo to other people in my company. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
