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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jan 27 19:55:37 -0800 2007 ------- Has the Notes feature been addressed at all lately? Even when it isn't compared to Word, the current feature is useless. The actual Notes editor does not do word wrapping or spell checking, the notes are tiny yellow boxes that could easily be mistaken for little graphics glitches (really, the pointer doesn't even change when placed over them!), the Notes can easily be removed by accident... Everything that Notes do seems like a bug, and when I first discovered the feature I thought that I was looking at the wrong thing and started looking for 'the real Comments feature', only to later discover (to my horror!) that Insert->Note was actually it. I cannot see many people (or, considering how popular this feature request is, any people) using today's Note feature. I find that a shame, because it seems to have some potential. For example, those Notes keep track of who created them and when. A basic feature, but a nice one nonetheless. Mostly, this feature needs some sign that notes are present. An icon and a simple swapping to the "You are hovering over a button" pointer at the appropriate time could very well work wonders. Improving this thing is probably a lot easier than some other features that the developers are working on! (And I guess I should say since this is my first thing written here and I seem quite ungrateful: OOo is a great piece of work, and the fact that the only thing I can find wrong is the Notes feature shows just how good it is). I, for one, think that Word's comments are equally imperfect. They at least show up, but at the same time they are very obtrusive. (Ugly, too!) I like the idea of having Notes show up at the bottom of pages; it makes that sort of stuff really easy and consistent to do. That is one way that I think a revised Notes could work well, and I have outlined it below: In this example, I am including the text of a poem in a text document. -There are some portions of this poem which are difficult to understand, so it is necessary to add comments to certain words and lines. Conventionally, one needs to do this 'by hand', adding the subscript numbers beside words and small notes into the footer. -However, OpenOffice is not a conventional word processor! I select a word and use Insert->Note to add a note to that word (or line, or whatever). A number is added beside it (and an indication appears to tell me that it is in fact a note and not just a number added by myself). I can then edit that note in the Note editor, and its text will appear in the footer. Of course, that basic example is not really the full potential of a cleaned up Notes feature. What if, instead of Notes content just going in the footer, Autotext fields for Notes were added? (With different formats available, and perhaps some entirely different fields to choose from; one for 'Notes on this page', one for 'every note in the document'). Then one could have Notes on a side bar, in the footer for each page, or at the end of the document. Or, complicating further, what if Styles could be applied to notes? Joe wants notes marked with numbers, Bob wants notes marked with underlines or bold text, and Mark wants words that have notes applied simply not marked at all (but still quietly clarified in the sidebar). Room for expansion beyond that. What if Notes could have different classifications? Some could be specifically aimed at an Index, some could be intended for the side of the page in the final version, and then some could be intended as temporary notes for a draft. Of course, those thoughts there are for the most part Way Beyond just a basic adjustment to the Notes feature. I do think, though, that it would be a good step from 'Useless feature' to 'Extremely useful feature that goes beyond the norm'. OpenOffice is well deserving of such a treatment, and I think it has a lot of room. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
