On 10 June 2010 22:20, Barbara Duprey <b...@onr.com> wrote: > Instead of focusing on parallels to Calc, let's think instead about this: > > * You have a "family" of text documents, all related to the same > overall function. > * The documents are fully independent of each other for such things > as styles, page numbering, layout, and so on. > * When something causes you to want to edit or refer to one of these > documents, chances are high that your requirement extends also to > the other documents in the family. > * Currently, each of these documents has a different name, and you > open each in a separate window to achieve your objective. > * The proposal is to allow the documents to retain their > independence, but be contained in a single file that can be opened > with one action and makes the individual documents readily > accessible from each other to streamline the updating and/or > referencing activities you need to perform. > * When you have accomplished your task, you currently close each > document separately. With the new structure, a single action > closes all the documents. > > Besides improving efficiency for the document owner, an advantage to this > structure is that the recovery information tracks together for all the > documents, making it less likely that they will get out of sync by being > restored to different points in your workflow. > > Dotan, is this a reasonable statement of your intent here? >
Barbara, that is _exactly_ what I had in mind, especially the third and last statements. Please, add that info to the issue here: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=112163 Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
