[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart
Hello, sent also to [design] as I think this is where it pertains. Le 12/11/2012 18:27, charles meyer a écrit : Hi Folks, MS Word has a comparison chart which shows you how to perform certain tasks in Word compared to how you effect them in WordPerfect. It's an easy chart to check (and learn) Word if you've been a WordPerfect user. Ex. Ctrl/F8 will perform a certain task in WordPerfect but that same task is done with different function key combinations in Word I was wondering if anyone has come across a similar comparison chart for Libre Writer and Word, especially Word 2003? The chart would show how a task is done in Word and then next to it would reveal how that task is done in Libre Writer. On the same goal and idea, I had suggested a *lng* time ago on the French OOo lists to create a set of keyboard shortcuts that would help the MS-Word power users switching to Writer. Beginners and standard users can switch quite easily. They haven't a thorough knowledge of the tool and usually just use the menus to get to the functionalities they need (argh!). Power users have long understood that the keyboard is a tool of productivity. Thus, they use keyboard shortcuts widely. As Word and Writer have different sets of shortcuts (at least they had when I left MS-Word alone, a long time ago), it could be an interesting work to port the Word shortcuts into Writer. We could then offer an easy transition that would fill a big gap for these people, helping them to switch tools more quickly. What do you think? Do I miss something? Note that this is just an idea. I have to-day no clue to what the Word shortcuts are vs Writer ones. -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart
Hi Jena-Francois, On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 10:11 +0100, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: > On the same goal and idea, I had suggested a *lng* time ago on the > French OOo lists to create a set of keyboard shortcuts that would help > the MS-Word power users switching to Writer. > > Beginners and standard users can switch quite easily. They haven't a > thorough knowledge of the tool and usually just use the menus to get to > the functionalities they need (argh!). > > Power users have long understood that the keyboard is a tool of > productivity. Thus, they use keyboard shortcuts widely. As Word and > Writer have different sets of shortcuts (at least they had when I left > MS-Word alone, a long time ago), it could be an interesting work to port > the Word shortcuts into Writer. We could then offer an easy transition > that would fill a big gap for these people, helping them to switch tools > more quickly. > > What do you think? Do I miss something? IIRC we already have some configuration option for Excel-compatible shortcuts in Calc. We could do the same with Word/Writer... but a list of the shortcuts to implement will be needed as I am no Word power-user ;) -- Cedric -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart
Bonjour JF et Cedric, Le 2012-11-13 04:54, Cedric Bosdonnat a écrit : Hi Jena-Francois, On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 10:11 +0100, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: On the same goal and idea, I had suggested a *lng* time ago on the French OOo lists to create a set of keyboard shortcuts that would help the MS-Word power users switching to Writer. Beginners and standard users can switch quite easily. They haven't a thorough knowledge of the tool and usually just use the menus to get to the functionalities they need (argh!). Power users have long understood that the keyboard is a tool of productivity. Thus, they use keyboard shortcuts widely. As Word and Writer have different sets of shortcuts (at least they had when I left MS-Word alone, a long time ago), it could be an interesting work to port the Word shortcuts into Writer. We could then offer an easy transition that would fill a big gap for these people, helping them to switch tools more quickly. What do you think? Do I miss something? IIRC we already have some configuration option for Excel-compatible shortcuts in Calc. We could do the same with Word/Writer... but a list of the shortcuts to implement will be needed as I am no Word power-user ;) -- Cedric We had discussed this quite a while ago on the Marketing Team and Ron Faile JR had developed a series of reference cards that could be adapted for this. In fact we did adapt some of these for different booth purposes. When the end product is folded it is formed into a triangular prism that can sit on a desk in front of the keyboard. Have a look here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Reference_Cards The reference cards may need checking as they were designed for LibreOffice 3.3 and they still need to be adapted for A4 paper stock. I still have one on my desk and the people I sent it to (educators who tried it with students) said that it was well received by both groups. It is really cool. Cheers, Marc -- Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-users] Word 2003 to Libre Writer - Comparison Chart
Hi Marc, Le 13/11/2012 11:17, Marc Paré a écrit : We had discussed this quite a while ago on the Marketing Team and Ron Faile JR had developed a series of reference cards that could be adapted for this. In fact we did adapt some of these for different booth purposes. When the end product is folded it is formed into a triangular prism that can sit on a desk in front of the keyboard. Have a look here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Reference_Cards The reference cards may need checking as they were designed for LibreOffice 3.3 and they still need to be adapted for A4 paper stock. I still have one on my desk and the people I sent it to (educators who tried it with students) said that it was well received by both groups. It is really cool. Unless I'm mistaken, the ref cards you're talking about are a different beast. My suggestion is to have a configurable set of Writer shortcuts so that a Word power user finds his/her usual way of use without the need to learn yet another shortcut set. (BTW, ISTR that I had a proposal for a A4 3-fold refcard.) -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
