Office software is sole of professional work and keeping things tidy.
Open office word alternative improvements Glance:
1) Support more paper sizes for printing (word apparently supports more than 25 forms)
2) Quick easy Printing [1 click print option without editing document]
Better previews of actions that can be performed [this is major area open office is lagging behind]
3) Live previews of font changes, print preview [improvements], other actions like applying themes, styles, borders, etc should have better previews.
4) Font manager integration into office, fonts in open office should look professional, uniqueness, distinction, visibility.
5) Clipboard manager for both ubuntu and Open office will make life easier. Storing more snapshots of clipboards, integration into system, revert/apply changes in chain of histories
6) Charts in open office are too outdated and still word has more than 50 chart types, drawing vector and art is mess, hardly updated and old tools. Better support of Inserting International characters (ASCII, character map integration, insert equations?)
7) Allow inserting custom files, images, art etc
8) Backgrounds, watermarks, document colors, mail merge, email, fax improvements(get addresses from other email accounts, system address book, over network, import yahoo, mail email addresses(csv ?) etc)
Better integration of open office writer into calc; impress [spreadsheet, presentation applications] for easy import/export.
Wow can we match Ribbon interface. Better If we can get best fonts rolling for both open office and ubuntu before next major, if possible some way to protect documents, versioning etc.improve compatibility with docx[office 2007],Google docs,zoho word file[?],abw[abiword] file formats. Writer can also be used as source code editor for WebPages, online help and online integration of help into open office, get templates online, more templates and themes
Wow can we match Ribbon interface. Better if we can get best fonts rolling for open office and ubuntu rolling before next Major Release like open office 3 so people expect much more from big releases.
