Comments on: Open Office “normal” view

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:30:24 +0000

I totally agree! I can’t believe it is not an option on OpenOffice. Formatting the page breaks is the last step for the documents I work on – in the mean time, I just want to put as much text on the page as I can. Leaving big blank spots for page breaks just takes up valuable screen space.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:39:44 +0000

I agree. Like everyone else, I came here looking for a solution. Now I’ve got to think about going back to MS. I hate fomatting. I guess I could shrink the font size so that I get proportionately more white space at any one time, but it’s still going to annoy me. Please can someone deal with this.

By: AstroNerdBoy

AstroNerdBoy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:17:14 +0000

Ugh! And here I was so hoping to not have to reload my old Office 2002. *_* I absolutely hate that there are only two views — print and web. The only time I used print view in Word was when I just wanted to see how something would look on the printer. Otherwise, I simply just wrote things normally. It makes no sense to me that a normal view feature would be something that the developers don’t feel like including. *_*

By: Prokoff

Prokoff — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:41:21 +0000

I translate very long documents in a daily basis and this is the single missing feature that has kept me from moving to OOo.

By: Kragen Javier Sitaker

Kragen Javier Sitaker — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:54:00 +0000

It sounds pretty annoying. I usually write in Emacs — I like how I can get it to fill the whole screen, in columns (with follow-mode) with no toolbars or anything. When I’m writing I tend not to want to be distracted by formatting at all.

But I’m no great writer, either.

All in all, I kind of hate OpenOffice (it works okay but it’s clunky) and I’m not really a word processor fan either, despite a variety of experience. (You know, WordStar 2.x, WordPerfect 5, Apple Writer, ClarisWorks, Microsoft Word of various versions, OpenOffice Writer…)

By: Timebomb

Timebomb — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:01:24 +0000

Man, I would love if OpenOffice could put a normal view in writer in writer. Like many above, I have waited for years to see this feature. Why are the developers so oblivious to this constant call?

By: Mauro

Mauro — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:31:38 +0000

I NEED draft view too!!!!

By: Alaya

Alaya — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:16:05 +0000

Yeah…only MS and every other word processing program released in the same 20 year period. What old-fashioned humbugs we all are. Not with the times. Don’t you know that huge margins and headers/footers and gray spaces are wicked cool, man? I totally love it when my sentences get chopped up by intrusive formatting. It’s, like, art.

By: Erling Larsen

Erling Larsen — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:19:38 +0000

I don’t see the big problem.
I prefer to to check my dokuments as they will print, and not have to imaging how they might look.

The normal look in MS-word is the same as was used in JANE, the first officeprogram for Commodore 64 in the mid 80′.

Most programs has improved for the last 20 years, it seems that only MS get stuck in old ideas.

By: Ty

Ty — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:12:48 +0000

Only sensible conclusion: Microsoft has paid off a few key OO managers to not implement normal view.