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------- Additional comments from ksev...@openoffice.org Thu Feb 18 16:52:37 +0000 2010 ------- The fact that people keep pleading for this feature when about everything that can be said about it has already been said, should tell the OO folks something. So I figure the following: 1. They can't do it. OO may be designed in such a way that they would have to totally redesign the product to implement the feature. However, for someone who is familiar with WP Reveal Codes, that is not too high a price. 2. They don't want to beat MS Word. MS Word has always been lame. It's harder to use and can't do as much as WordPerfect. The only way they could beat WordPerfect was to bundle the their products together and sell them below cost. Their cash cow Windoze allowed them to do that. Now, OO can return the favor, because it literally is free. OO will likely never be 100% compatible with MS Office, because MS will keep tweaking the format. So to win the market they have to be better. Reveal Codes is a key step in getting there. That argument has already been made several times over. So all I can conclude is that they don't want to beat MS Word. So what do we who need Reveal Codes do? 1. We keep using old copies of WordPerfect, which is still better than either MS Word or OO Writer. (I still use WP 5.1 macro-based systems to generate documents because it still works, and I can't duplicate it elsewhere.) 2. If we can't do that, then we use whichever of the equally lame twins (MS Word or OO Writer) we must to get the job done. 3. Maximize your votes (2) for this issue. Hopefully, if it keeps bubbling to the top, it will make it a pain for the OO folks to ignore it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
