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Popular ideas Here are the last 6 months most popular ideas about OpenOffice.org Word Processor.

In libreoffice writer page should be possible to be split in one window  
Written by oliveryty the 6 Mar 12 at 08:38. New
I am doing English-Chinese translation, to find it difficult to work with Libreoffice Writer. It just can't split the page to make the source text and target text visible in one window, as I often choose to translate passage by passage...
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Solution #1: In libreoffice writer page should be possible to be split in one window
Written by oliveryty the 6 Mar 12 at 08:38.
In MS Word 2003, in the "Window" this is a "split the page" option. It make me feel convenient to have both the source text and target text in view when I am doing translation. Libreoffice should be possible in doing this...

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ubuntu should require new word processors to include serach plugin  
Written by jim2012 the 9 Apr 12 at 06:57. New
why LibreOffice and OpenOffice do not provide a search by content plugin

I would like to propose to Linux management that any new document formats generated by OpenOffice, LibreOffice, WhateverFutureOffice will come with a plugin that gets called by Linux search program. For example Ubuntu has a program called "search for files". The program will not find by content documents like .odt .ott .docx. That is because these documents use nested files format. It should be required for any new word processor with new data format to provide a plugin which would be hookable (I don't mean se-x) into the search engine. Yes, I did find some scripts that can look inside the .odt but those scripts are unusable when you have 100,000 documents. (I do have that many.) Yours humbly, experienced software developer.
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Solution #1: require new document format designer to include search by content plugin
Written by jim2012 the 9 Apr 12 at 06:57.
Ubuntu management should require new document format designer to include search by content plugin. In other words, Ubuntu would specify interface that each word processor like OpenOffice or LibreOffice would require to use to design a plugin. The plugin would be then plugged into the Ubuntu current search engine so that documents can be search BY CONTENT. --humbly yours
This should be the forward looking policy bcs I am sure people are defining new document formats every day. Since the Open/Libre Office people are the most familiar with the format, they should be the one to provide the plugin. So this is really coordination issue.
-IMHO

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Easier way to configure paper-size  
Written by mrs_sheep the 4 May 12 at 15:51. New
Users need an easier way to configure the papersize, changing it is quite difficult. (Editing the /etc/papersize isn't userfriendly)

Normally (!) it could be dependet on the language/time-zone settings, but users like me prefer running an english-setup in central-european (meaning A4 instead of letter) countries.
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Solution #1: Papersize-Configuration during installation
Written by mrs_sheep the 4 May 12 at 15:51.
Users should be asked what there default/favorite papersize is, at a best during installation process, together with time-zone etc.

It is important to include this in the installation process because everybody needs this setting. It should still propose the time-zone/language-specific default.

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