Re:Of course! - receipts - preference for eMail
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My set preference is for my eMail client to ask - then I let receipts go to those with whom I work. On the occasion that I request a receipt and do not get one within a reasonable time, I simply send a brief follow up requesting acknowledgement of the earlier message.
Certainly I have a preference for eMail. The telephone is the most rude instrument (both in standard and cell format) of the past two centuries. The person placing the call expects one to stop whatever one is doing and give the caller undivided attention for whatever is on their mind. At least voice-mail enables one to balance work and communication.
Timely, thoughtful communication is worth much more than instant blabbering.
My guess is that you do not use outlining as a tool for organizing thoughts, papers, presentations.
Yes, one can use bullets and numbering to make a traditional manual outline, but it is the buttons to promote/demote paragraphs (and selections of paragraphs) within the outline as well as move selections forwards and backwards (up and down) within the greater text that make the feature quite useful. One can also hide (or display) the outline characters within the finished text.
A second good use of this feature (also missing from OOo) is that within MS Office one can create an outline in Word and import it directly into PowerPoint - presto! slides with text. And, vice versa, from a slide presentation to outlined text document.
Within PowerPoint itself one can see the presentation text as an outline - moving items within the outline makes the corresponding moves within and among the slides.
There is one Linux jotter application that I know of which utilizes the outlining functionality with buttons, gjots2 [ http://bhepple.freeshell.org/gjots2 ]
The outling functionality (but without the graphic buttons) was present in a great DOS wordprocessor back in the very early 90's, Borland's Sprint. So, must I take it that one can patent the idea of using graphic buttons to move items within an outline?
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My set preference is for my eMail client to ask - then I let receipts go to those with whom I work. On the occasion that I request a receipt and do not get one within a reasonable time, I simply send a brief follow up requesting acknowledgement of the earlier message.
Certainly I have a preference for eMail. The telephone is the most rude instrument (both in standard and cell format) of the past two centuries. The person placing the call expects one to stop whatever one is doing and give the caller undivided attention for whatever is on their mind. At least voice-mail enables one to balance work and communication.
Timely, thoughtful communication is worth much more than instant blabbering.
My guess is that you do not use outlining as a tool for organizing thoughts, papers, presentations.
Yes, one can use bullets and numbering to make a traditional manual outline, but it is the buttons to promote/demote paragraphs (and selections of paragraphs) within the outline as well as move selections forwards and backwards (up and down) within the greater text that make the feature quite useful. One can also hide (or display) the outline characters within the finished text.
A second good use of this feature (also missing from OOo) is that within MS Office one can create an outline in Word and import it directly into PowerPoint - presto! slides with text. And, vice versa, from a slide presentation to outlined text document.
Within PowerPoint itself one can see the presentation text as an outline - moving items within the outline makes the corresponding moves within and among the slides.
There is one Linux jotter application that I know of which utilizes the outlining functionality with buttons, gjots2 [ http://bhepple.freeshell.org/gjots2 ]
The outling functionality (but without the graphic buttons) was present in a great DOS wordprocessor back in the very early 90's, Borland's Sprint. So, must I take it that one can patent the idea of using graphic buttons to move items within an outline?