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The aim of this page is to provide an analysis of useful features from competitor software.

Virtually every table on the net uses the following specific design:

header row: a background color is set
table-rows:
- alternating backgrounds
- usually NO hard-borders, but usually light borders
highlight current row: interactive programs (aka web) implement this feature, too
slightly rounded corners: sometimes a pretty cheap but visually pleasing effect

virtually every web table, including the OOo and Mozilla issue-lists use these web-proven designs.
Adobe InDesign CS3:
- Be more productive -> Full featured tables paragraph:
- flash demo: see the whole demo

Writer: implement such a table style (NO issue yet filed)
Calc: implement a Spreadsheet Table View
- see issue 78181
- different header style
- data-rows: alternating background
- highlight current row
Impress: highlight current row/ current area
- see issue 79882

iWorks: professional looking styles & themes out of the box
MS Office 2007: also professional looking styles & themes out of the box
- Using these two products you have to almost struggle to create ugly documents
- No confusion caused by multiple simultaneous pragmas (strong manual editing support vs styles based)
- Themes format styles automatically, which means extremely easy switching of the whole look
OOo is very poor on this area!

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