Comments on: OpenOffice.org: The Need for Style

By: inderjeetsinghit

inderjeetsinghit — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:21:15 +0000

Hello this is inderjeet from india, i am working on project which include to create functionality that let me change style sheet of .odt file to presentation ..

Can you help mee if soo plzz replyy..

By: Cas Tuyn

Cas Tuyn — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:22:11 +0000

As a long-time Adobe FrameMaker user and template designer for technical documentation 2 m wide, I feel the styles of OpenOffice are much like the styles inside FrameMaker (except indeed the table styles).
OpenOffice.org could very well be the replacement for FrameMaker for ultra-long and strictly consistent product documentation. I’ll give it a try with one of our service manuals.

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By: Bruce Byfield

Bruce Byfield — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:07:04 +0000

“office suites are good only for creating small documents(not more than 10-12 pages) i have learnt that even for these tasks they are an overkill in terms of features and resource usage. for long/large documents, i have moved away from these and happily use a simple text editor to write my content, then use *TeX to mark it up these days”

Thank you for the obligatory TeX comment. No article on an office suite is complete without one.

Not that there’s anything wrong with TeX. But, unfortunately, the majority of people don’t know TeX, and aren’t about to use it.

Also, I’ve used OpenOffice.org for documents of over 700 pages, and had no trouble whatsoever with them.

I should also point out that, if had used OOo with a template in which the styles were set up, you could have done much of your formatting automatically as you worked, and reduced your working time by almost half.

By: Bruce Byfield

Bruce Byfield — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:02:31 +0000

Why no table styles? That’s a question I’ve been asking for nine years.

Writer does have the ability to save table patterns, but this falls far short of table styles.

By: Chakravarthi Suchindran

Chakravarthi Suchindran — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:30:11 +0000

office suites are good only for creating small documents(not more than 10-12 pages) i have learnt that even for these tasks they are an overkill in terms of features and resource usage. for long/large documents, i have moved away from these and happily use a simple text editor to write my content, then use *TeX to mark it up these days … cs

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GoblinX Project » GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 238 (02/21/2010) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:24:58 +0000

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Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:41:34 +0000

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By: Fundi

Fundi — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:33:57 +0000

Nice. But why in the world are there styles for everything but tables?

By: Silverlokk

Silverlokk — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:47:08 +0000

As to the article itself — I’ve had to use the “leading” office suite, and found that the Styles in the presentation and spreadsheet modules were hard to find, if present at all. Just thought I’d mention that, to let people know the OOo beats the “market leader” in at least that respect