LO 4.1.3

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#1

I know of a few writers and an editor. Having to have access to a word count option could really help. We pay you for 3,500 words and you give up 3,450 - not good, not good. Of course then you use the word count to help with the final book size. An average of 300 words per page for a hard cover and between 260 and 350 pages in the book is a good guide, but having a true word count would be better. Your manuscript almost never will have the same page, paragraph, and text formating as the finalized book from the publisher. Having every tool that helps you write in the format and the size that you editor and publisher wants/needs can be very important for a beginning author.

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
I think the example might not have been a good one but the point was
valid. There are a ton of features that almost no-one will ever use
and some that almost no-one would miss. On the other hand sometimes
people stumble onto a feature they would never have thought about and
from then on find it immensely useful.

With MS Office it's been postulated that around 80% of the features
almost never get used. Of the remaining 20% some never gets used by
some people and other parts never (or rarely) get used by others. I'm
not sure if there has been a formal study to prove it or to get
precise percentages. From what i see around me in most offices i
would say that it's more like 95% never gets used until people have
been on training courses and maybe start making more use of less
obvious features.

I am not sure what the percentages would be for LibreOffice or
OpenOffice but the idea of having Extensions to keep obscure
functionality available but out of the way of most people seems a
brilliant way of handling it and enables companies to have their
special in-house extras less tied to a single instance of a single
program.

Hmmm, all this is waaaay off-topic for this thread though!
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Hi,

Setting up a new wheezy system and copying the LO-user-dir in my home
directory, downloading the actual version of LO from the ocfficial place, I
could start LO and run it as I was used to it. No key changes, no bugs, no
nasty change in "design" etc. Even macros, dictionaries, all was working
right as expected. Thats the way I love it.

(In contrast to wheezy, where fundamental packages simply disappeared
(capisuite), weird pop ups, new designs (from right to left, .. I still have
a lot of work to do, until its "my" system again.

Walther

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Yes, it's 2 factors.
1. LibreOffice is one of the very few packages that is good to get
"straight from the horses mouth" with no tweaking
2. a more recent version, and at the moment that means a much more
stable one because both current branches have just left the "new
features" area and are just getting bug-fixes now
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: