Which components do you use most?

users
#1

I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate the different components. For myself, my approximate usage is:

Writer (85% of my use of LO)
Calc (10%)
Impress (3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year)
Base (once a year to print out labels for my Christmas cards)
Draw (What's that?)

Virgil

#2

Writer - 90%
Draw - 9%
Calc - 1%
Base - once
Impress - never

Dale.

#3

My usage is:
Calc 85%
Writer 10%
Impress a few times a year, mostly to view slide shows
Base 5% mostly for testing purposes
Draw very rarely

Most of my Calc use is generating spreadsheet reports for others. I typically use text manipulation functions

My Writer use is for writing/editing short documents and reports.

Impress is used to view slide shows, I almost never make a show.

Base is occasionally used to work with a MySQL/MariaDB backend. I usually use MySQL Workbench or HeidiSQL via Wine to work with MySQL/MariaDB.

Draw is used maybe once a year.

From what I have seen of alternative commercial office suites I suspect the usage is concentrated on Writer, Calc, and Impress. Base and Draw are not used by most but those who do use either probably use them a lot.

#4

Writer 10%
Calc 30% (but decreasing as I become more familiar with gnuplot_
Impress 10% (not just for presentations, but as a tool for creating
graphics to send to customers)
Base 0%
Draw 0%

Give me a link to a more powerful tool for graphing tool, please.
Gnuplot is OK, but I deal with millions and millions of samples, and I
find generating plots or graphs with zoom and very slow and time
consuming. I think gnuplot uses TK, which is not quick, and maybe
python in the back end. Something native would be nice, but with the
ability to choose samples, rows and columns like gnuplot.

Big data is the field, isn't it.

Regards,
Les H

#5

Writer 90%
Calc- a few times a year
Base- daily
Impress- almost never
Draw- just discovering how simple it is to layout info on a page

Keith

#6

On Monday, 12 May 2014 3:25 AM, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the
people on this list.

Writer    (85% of my use of LO)
Calc        (10%)
Impress  (3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year)
Base      (once a year to print out labels for my Christmas cards)
Draw      (What's that?)

Virgil

#7

hi virgil,

its a very interesting topic.

for me,

writer: 80-85%
calc: not much (most of the analysis done on PSPP/R)
impress: 15-20%
base: none (could not understand)
draw: once/twice a year (mainly for poster presentation in conferences)

regards,

som

#8

For me:

Calc 90% of my LO use
Writer 8%
Base >1 have never had a use that really needs it.
Draw even less than base

Ian

#9

Hello,

I know this does not add up to 100%, but then - most of the time I use a
combination of parts of LO together. So...
Writer most of the time
Calc 15 to 20%
Impress 3%, Maybe four to five presentations a year
Base most of the time (I use it to interface to a MySQL-DB which is
            the base for the administration of a 50-piece band (music,
            performances, sponsors, uniforms, etc., etc.)
Draw hardly used at all...
Regards
Heinrich

#10

Writer: 4%
Calc: 95% mainly for text manipulation (it's fast enough to be usable with the complex spreadsheets I use, but only just)
Draw: 1%

David Lynch

#11

Writer: 30%
Calc: 60%
Impress: 4%
Base: 5%
Draw: <1%

Cheers
Harvey

#12

Calc: By far the component I use the most. I use this regularly.
      Mostly small stuff, household finance spreadsheets, usage stats,
      bank statements, that sort of thing.

Writer: The second most used, although I seldom use this.

Impress: I have used this on a couple of occasions.

Base: I've only ever opened it for a quick look around.
      Being a programmer, I prefer to write my own. It may be past
      prejudice from the likes of Access, but I just can't feel
      comfortable using something like Base for anything; if the
      requirement is small, Base would be too much overhead, and if the
      requirement is large, then a custom application on top of a
      proper database would be a far better solution, more robust, more
      secure, more customised...

Draw: I've only ever opened it for a quick look around.
      I use other, custom drawing software when I need to edit stuff,
      like the Gimp, or Inkscape. Again, probably more just my personal
      prejudices, but I just don't view an office suit as a graphics
      package.

Paul

#13

Good Morning Folks,

My usage is:

Calc: 90+%
Write: 7+%
Impress; <1%
Base: <1%
Draw: 2%

I use LO on 3 systems and like it very much. I also advocate replacing M$ Office as often as I can!

Cheers,
Jay

#14

I use Calc more than Writer but I rarely use Impress and have never used
Draw or Base.

So, it's between Calc and Writer for me. :slight_smile: I use Calc daily (to
update blood pressure monitoring spreadsheet, mostly) and Writer
occasionally.

Peace...

Tom

#15

Hi :slight_smile:
I should use Draw more. It's the better tool for the job for the company
newsletter but i just feel more comfortable in Writer. So,

Writer = 80%
Calc = 5% (and mostly only to check my answers to mailing list)
Draw = 10% (mostly use Inkscape and Gimp tbh but Draw trumps them for
floor plans etc)
Base = 2% (again, "use" might not be an accurate term)
Math = 2%
Impress= 1%

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#16

Writer: 75%
Calc: 40%
Draw: 15%
Impress: 10%
Base: 10%
Math: 0%

That's more than 100%? Probably because I'm working more than that as
well :wink:

#17

Personal use:
50% Writer
50% Calc
(Impress perhaps twice a year).

But as a translator I am walking through the other components one after another. I like to know what I am translating. At the moment I am working partly on Impress partly on Base.
Kolbjoern

Den 12.05.2014 15:12, skreiv Jay Ridgley:

#18

calc 80%
writer10%
presentation 8%
the rest 2%

#19

Virgil Arrington wrote

I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the
people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of
experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate the
different components. For myself, my approximate usage is:

Writer 90%
Calc 10% fairly often but in small bits.

Coming from "Generalized Markup Language (GML)" background from the late
70s, I use Styles and Templates exclusively, especially when preparing
books. I would be interested to know what proportion of time people use
Styles when preparing text. The users I help are all home users and struggle
with the concept of styles and even templates. Peter

#20

I almost always use Styles and Templates. I know it has a somewhat
shallow learning curve, but it is worth the effort to learn because it
makes you much more efficient in the long run. Not doing that reminds
me of the classic "There is never time to do it right, but always time
to do it over."

Regards,