Why don't I believe you? Perhaps it is because I have been using this product since Star Office became available. I have used OpenOffice.org from version 1.0 to 3.3. I even used it to help write documentation for it. ( Writer) I have used a spreadsheet to keep track of my finances. Considering the number of linked sheets in it, I would never recommend anyone try this on a smart phone. I have also written an autobiography part that contains 83000 plus words and pics. Another contains 57000 plus words. Could I have done this with the early versions of OOo? No. The present versions have many more features than the earlier ones. Perhaps you have not taken the time to learn what the program can do. I am also helping a lady to write a document for her bridge group. It contains text, pics, bullets, and different heading levels. We are not having any problems doing it. So, seriously, what is your real problem?
Dan -------- Original message -------- From: Rebecca Eaton <mousepol...@ymail.com> Date:05/08/2015 4:43 PM (GMT-05:00) To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Please stop copying Microsoft! They suck more every year! Hi there! I've been using your spreadsheet and word processor for at least 15 years (unless you're not that old... as long as I can remember, anyway). I'm sorry to say that the usability of both has gone down quite a bit in the past few years, and I suspect that it's because you're trying to copy Microsoft. Microsoft sucks so much, there are no polite words for them. Why not try to make things better than Microsoft? If you just took these programs from ten years ago, and spruced them up a bit, that would pretty much do the trick. Some examples: Your word processor seems to have been redesigned for a smart phone. Smart phones are for people who don't need to do huge amounts of research, cutting and pasting, formatting, etc. You need to get some people to design things like word processors and spreadsheets who actually use them on a pretty much daily basis, because people who do all their typing on a phone can't imagine the things that we used to be able to do. The default should be that the things that I type stay exactly the way I typed them. In the early 2000's, it was annoying that it took one button to change this to the default. Now it's actually impossible. I' often have to actually change what I want to write in the document, because I can't stop the damn program from changing it. I click on all kinds of boxes that say they will stop it, but they don't. If you want to make the default be like a smartphone, could I please have one, easy to find button to click on, that says "leave my goram typing the way I smegging well typed it." Please, I'm begging. I know A LOT of people agree with me about this, and I don't know why nobody's listening. When I used to right-click on something, the box would open in a location appropriate to the box. Now it opens relative to the cursor. This means that if what I've clicked on isn't at the top of the page, I can't paste, because the bottom of the box is below this stupid-ass see-through monstrosity of a taskbar at the bottom of the screen (where I've lost actual windows before, because I accidentally dragged them to the bottom of the screen, and it let me drag it down, but then wouldn't let me click on the document once it was under the taskbar). So have to scroll down, and click again. There are quite a few operations that I used to do with one or two clicks, that now take me four or five. I would really like to have back the ability to right-click in the document and get the option for "paste special." I do this approximately a million times a day, and I curse you every time. Not you personally, more programmers in general. When I click on something, the document keeps jumping around to put that line more in the middle of the page. I put that line right where I wanted it, so I can see all the lines I'm working on, and I don't want it to move. The cursor doesn't disappear anymore when I'm typing, even though I've checked all the appropriate boxes. This is so annoying. I start typing, and then I can't see what I'm working on. Seriously, this Windows 8 is so incredibly bad, it feels like the designers are just pooping on consumers. That's not the word I'm really thinking... It's obscene that they still control the market, when their product gets worse and worse every year. There are so many functions that it doesn't do at all, and these m-f-ing pop-up things mean that I have to spend a lot of time carefully positioning the mouse so they won't all pop up, and make my freaking windows disappear, or make it impossible to click on what I need to click on. Now is the perfect time to take them down. I wish now that I'd kept up with my programming, because I think that I could easily write something better than Windows. I have to think that this is related to the fact that IT companies used to pay $70 an hour for geniuses, and now they're paying $20 an hour for recent graduates who don't really use computers to do anything except gaming and chatting. No offense meant if you're one of these graduates, but you really want some people involved who spend a lot of time using the programs they design, for smarty-pants stuff. I think you people need to get together, and buy a few geniuses, and write something that fricking well works for people who aren't teenagers. I know it's hard, when education is no longer a priority, and some government officials are actively fighting against it. But you could even just take the best features from Windows 3.1 through Windows 98, and add the stuff that we need today, and it would be much, much better, without really needing to innovate. I know this isn't in Apache's mandate, but maybe you know someone who could make this happen. I'm so sick of this suckage. I'm begging you, please stop going downhill right behind Microsoft. They've given up on hiring good people, or listening to them, I dunno. It's too depressing, for someone who grew up on a Commodore 64, and saw computers get better and better every year for such a long time. Sorry I'm so excited about this, but I hope you understand. I spend A LOT of time with these things. Thanks for listening. I know that if you can make this happen, it will help you get the edge over Microsoft. Good luck. 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