2008/8/18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michele wrote: >> >> [snip] >>> >>> The Outline functionality in OOo like M$ Outline is not the same as the >>> navigator, not even close. I have been using outlining for the last 10 >>> years, and know how it works. I have gone back to M$-Office with a sore >>> heart (M$Word 2000 in Wine, & M$-Word 2007 in VirtualBox). OOo just does >>> not >>> have this ability, and has been on the cards for the last few (6 ?) >>> years. >>> >> Hello, >> >> I also use Microsoft office when I am at work (MS Office 2003) and >> quite honestly, when thinking about the outline view and navigator at >> a functional level I find the navigator perfectly adequate: > > if that is the position of developers at OOo, then you will not attract any > M$-Outliner users, > or any other outliner users I think. It is a navigator, not an outliner. I > dearly want to use OOo > but the outliner is essential for me. Normal letters etc. I do use OOo as > much as I can, > but not for the documents and papers I write.
I am not a developer, but like you, I am a user of OOo. As I wrote I am certainly not a power user of the outline view so I was keen to learn and maybe suggest to the developers what features may need to be included. > >> it shows >> the outline of the document allowing you to move sections of text >> around and change the outline level. > > 'Drag & Drop' ? Yes, this is missing. I guess what you mean is the ability to drag a section to its new place right? > > Many writers commented, but those who do not use it often do not seem to > understand what the writers want. I have just looked at OOo 2.4.1.6 with > Navigator. > It is a good navigation tool to get around in the document, but laborious if > you try to work in the document as in M$-outliner. > M$-Outliner works like most outliners out there, it is not difficult to > see the differences if you look at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner Thanks for this link. I see now what the limitations you mentioned are. > > Here are also many links to outliners. Most writers indicate an intrinsic > outliner like M$-Word, instead of the extrinsic outliner that Navigator > seems to be developing to. The main benefit is the ease of use of M$-Word > Outline view to work and display all in one view. > > Also, the outline view has to be compatible with M$-Office in this respect > too, because many have done work already and need to reuse and edit existing > documents from M$-outline view in an OOo-Outline view. > All else has been discussed in the issue 3959, it is not useful to discuss > it all here again. > > HTH It most certainly does. Cheers, Michele --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
