by triplemaya » Sat Oct 08, 2016 4:06 pm
Thanks. Libre has a fatal flaw from my point of view. I often open doc after doc looking for a certain string (I should probably get a better desktop search app). In aoo the string in the search box is the same as when last used on any doc. This saves a huge amount of effort and stress when I am in a hurry to find the piece of text I am looking for.
While I am moaning, I think ooo has never had the same utility since the interface for the spell check was radically modernised to imitate MS word. I now just copy any text to be checked into thunderbird, which has the exact same interface as used to be in ooo, spellcheck and copy back. I time it as between 2 and 5 times quicker. In the new interface you have to stop and use the mouse. Not only are there around 1 tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab s required to get from one field to another, this changes depending on the state of the dialog box. Ugly imo.
My real gripe is that the old interface was not kept in the code as an option one could select. As a programmer that seems a really crazy waste of good, robust, well-developed code.
OpenOffice.org 3.4.1 Debian Wheezy