Replacing Framemaker

[Stuart Rogers]

Rebecca.L.Frasure at aphis.usda.gov wrote:
  I know nothing
> about OpenOffice.org Writer. Does anyone else? 

It's very much like MS Word, in the way it is cumbersome and unintuitive 
and at least a little bit unstable.

I have used it to edit a document created by someone else. The first 
thing that went wrong was... the Numbering! Mucking about with some 
numbered paragraphs crashed the program and lost my work. I have also 
been trying to apply a figure numbering style that includes chapnum, and 
find that OOo keeps dropping the hyphen from the style definition. The 
dialog boxes are like Word, in that you have to drill down a million 
levels to set options. The on-line Help is reference oriented, not task 
oriented, so you're left guessing at what features exist by what names 
that will do what you want.

In short, it's been every bit as irritating and frustrating as Word, and 
I wouldn't use it for anything more than memos and very short reports 
(which is what I use Word for).

regards,

-- 
Stuart Rogers
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Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
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