On 10/20/2016 12:49 PM, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
Willfully rude and insulting, John?
No, just an observation, after a week wasted trying to figure
out how to use Master Documents. The most important part of a
program is ease of use. The reason for the difficulty was the
parts work differently, and everyone became frustrated when I
started questioning what appeared to be contradictions in the
users guide, and in the advice I was being given.
I asked several expert programmers if they'd used Open Office,
and all said they tried, and gave up because they encountered
too many problems. I am a strong advocate of open source code,
and believe tax credit funding is necessary for it to survive.
Presently the public doesn't benefit as much from open source
as do large corporations. They can hire someone to figure out
how to use Open Office, save money and pay developers nothing.
If one's time is worth much it's far cheaper to buy something,
than figure out how to use it.
Even after I got it working, when I tried to add a blank page
it screwed everything up, no matter what I tried. It would of
been a waste of time asking readers of the list. It was clear
no one understood what was going on under the hood, they knew
how to use it, but didn't know how it worked.
jrh
Advice from two users I should have taken:
Other than care in selecting to use the same template for all components
of a master document I can make no suggestion. I have never needed to
use the master documents structure for any of the documents I have
edited/written, irrespective of their size (sometimes several thousand
pages) and have only dabbled inconclusively with master documents.
Rory
+1
Several times in the past, I have looked at using a master document for
a large document of mine. However, in each case there was some
difficulty I found with using a master document, that made me think it
was just too much trouble. In all of those cases, using a "flat"
document was the best choice for me.
Girvin Herr
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