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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 19 01:16:05 +0000 2008 ------- foobard->khong I'm a freelance journalist. About half of the time I get paid by the word. Or rather, I get paid by the word count as counted in Microsoft Word. Further, I work to fixed word counts. If my editor says, 20,000 words, and I submit a manuscript that's 20,005, it makes me look like an idiot. It would be like a programmer forgetting to include a matching curly brace -- it's so basic that if you can't do it right, you look very unprofessional. This issue affects all journalists and writers, for whom word count is the fundamental basis of their business. As I've written before, there are tens of thousands of us who would gladly switch to OOo if they could. Freelance journalists as a rule don't make a lot of money -- a lot less than programmers anyway -- so we are an ideal target audience to expand the OOo user base. I realize that you are attempting to reverse engineer in a black box situation. As a one-time programmer myself, I can appreciate the difficulty of such a task, and I thank you for making a start. But unless you finish the task, unless we make every effort to make OOo word count compatible with MS Word -- including any bugs that might exist -- then all the work you've put into this issue is of no use to me nor to any of the other writers out there. In "Writer Land", we live and die by word count. It is the measure of all things, and the final arbiter of all disagreements. It is law. And it is law as dictated by Microsoft. Please consider implementing this Microsoft bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
