On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 20:35:39 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi :) > Just out of curiosity has anyone tried the Apache OpenOffice 4.0 yet? > > I really liked the sound of the toolbar down the side so i just gave it a > quick go. I was a tad disappointed to find that toolbar was in addition to > the ones we both already have at the top and mostly was just a duplication of > many of those buttons. However 1st time try-outs of new things seldom go > completely smoothly! lol > > I would really like to see both LO and AOO go this route and faster. At the > moment all programs seem intent on making the screen more and more like a > letter-box slit with more and more wasted space at the sides and more and > more crammed in at the top&bottom. > > It's becoming tougher and tougher to see a whole document all at the same > time. > Regards from > Tom :) > The individual toolbars and the sidebar are all separately switchable on/off in a standard AOO 4.0 installation. Switching off standard toolbars releases space at screen top; using Sidebar uses side space. If one wishes even more vertical space one can (Operating system dependent) often turn a wide monitor on its side. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org