To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59687 Issue #:|59687 Summary:|text rotation UI is so poorly designed as to be |nearly useless Component:|Word processor Version:|OOo 2.0 Platform:|All URL:| OS/Version:|All Status:|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard:| Keywords:| Resolution:| Issue type:|FEATURE Priority:|P3 Subcomponent:|editing Assigned to:|mru Reported by:|mzarathustra
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 22 15:11:22 -0800 2005 ------- Side by side, with Microsoft Office, the OO user interface for doing text rotation is so clumsy and ineptly designed as to be nearly useless. Please let me explain: In MS office, you just tell it "rotate text" (in a top-level menu item, if I remember correctly) and you're done. In OO, it's buried do deeply in menus so you can hardly find it. Then, once you do, it doesn't really work. The character rotation doesn't work, because it doesn't respect newlines. You have to use manual break instead, which is really tedious because OO (unlike MS office) doesn't provide a hot key to insert a manual line break. (yes, you can set up a hot key for the dialog, but then you still have to select "line break" -- it doesn't remember your last choice -- and hit enter. Very boring) If one can be content with 270 degree rotation, one can select "table properties" (deceptively named, since what you're really adjusting is the table CELL properties) and change text flow/text direction, which works the way the "character / properties" OUGHT to work. I am sure there is some fancy-pants XML/object-oriented philosophical reason for doing thing this way, but from the standpoint of user experience, it sucks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
