I have never consistently used Open office. But please, for the love of God, don't just make a word processor, email program and database program. Please make something the people will use.
My current pet peeve: Scheduling shared conference rooms in outlook is a pain. If an email/calendar program let someone set up a list of available conference rooms, that would get booked when a location was selected (from a drop down menu) then my company's scheduling nightmare would be over. Because if it worked correctly, when one rescheduled a meeting, the conference room would also reschedule. As it is in outlook the only way to do this (natively) is to set up the conference as a person, and have someone log in and accept all the meeting requests/ rescheduling requests. Other Ideas: Tasks should be more robust. One should be able to select a mail message and drag it into a task and then the mail message should have the option to be deleted from the inbox and moved into a navigation bar within the task window. Meetings should also be linkable to tasks. Tasks should have multiple sub tasks that automatically update the Main task's completion level when they are checked off. This way, instead of creating millions of folders in outlook to keep all our mail together, and going back and digging through our calendar for meetings etc. We could open up the task, click on what we needed. If it were a meeting, it would have the minutes attached to it (rather than having to email them out to everyone), with a list of all the people that actually managed to attend, and a list of reasons why people could not attend. Colors should also be along the whole background of the line, not just some stupid little square, and the display text should be adjustable also. People should have the option of adding icons to the summary lines of emails, tasks, and calendar entries. This will allow more visual organization that also does NOT rely on color (for those of us that are colorblind). I am sending this here and not to Microsoft because I hate their attempt to steal good ideas from others by rewriting the patent laws to allow the first submission of an idea to get the patent rights rather than the first person that came up with the idea. Thanks, Kat Buitron Media Coordinator [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lightning Eliminators & Consultants, Inc. ____________________________________ 6687 Arapahoe Road, Boulder CO 80303-1453, USA Phone: +1 (303) 447-2828 FAX: +1 (303) 447-8122 www.LECglobal.com <http://lecglobal.com>
