Improvable Areas

(Suggestions from Sun StarOffice/OpenOffice QA collected by the Team Leads)
Improvable Areas for OOo 3.x

Writer & Math:

Page Styles (& bad styles)
Mail Merge (& unflexibel)
Record Changes (functionality is too limited)
Tables cannot be wrapped
PDF Export with Expert Settings
Objects & Graphics too few border types are suggested
Navigator
Fields & References
HTML & Web Layout
Master Documents
Indexes & Tables of Contents
Bibliography
Much space wasted (frame)

Calc & Chart:

Object handling
Hide Functions (different places)
Datapilot

Impress & Draw:

Slide Effects and Object Effects (slow and interrupted)
Loading big files (slow)
Objects poorly drawn (Anti-Aliasing)
Style & Template handling (need better templates)
Color management (Color picker missing)
Video/Sound under Unix/Linux
Import/Export Filter PPT (PPTX)
Editing of Hyperlinks

Base

See suggestion List (Cooperation of Dev & QA) -> Base Feature

General:

Automatic functions (inconsistent behavior: e.g. different switch-off places)
Macro Recorder
Formatting in Calc not respected in Base
Features differs in applications (for example, table handling, Hyperlinks, Tabs)
Template handling
Help
Error Messages can be confusing
Sometimes long waiting periods without warning
Progress bar
Separate applications (everything waits for one document to open)
Customize dialog (duplicate strings/terms, doesn't always work like it is supposed to, old functions)

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Autor: Christoph Lukasiak (Clu) 2 March 2009
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