Integrating with Microsoft Office was a BAD IDEA.

Oracle made the decision to violate one of the cardinal rules of software development:
Do not integrate with a product if you are using in a way other than it was intended.
Of course, one can use software beyond it's purpose (unless of course it's a Microsoft product) but fully reliant integration?!!!
First of all, there is no well-defined boundary between MS Word functionality that translates to meaningful template-building functionality and that which does not. Therefore it is not helpful to use this 'familiar product' to build templates, because you run into roadblocks at every turn. There is no way to know a priori which functions will help build your template and which are just for word processing. It's more confusing than the familiarity is worth. Frankly, it's just lazyness on Oracle's part, to avoid making a real template builder. (The new online template builder kinda sucks, especially when you have more than a handful of columns.)
This selective, unpredictable support of Microsoft functionality is reflected in the fact that OBIEE 11g DOES NOT SUPPORT INTERNET EXPLORER 8 on Windows XP!
Like Microsoft, Oracle has adopted the philosophy that its users shall not be able to do anything innovative, creative, or interesting that was not expressly intended during their requirements-gathering phase. Furthermore, much of the interesting functionality barely works as it is. The Oracle-Microsoft alliance is an untrustworthy one, and is bad for Oracle.

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Merhaba bey!
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http://www.apple.com/tr/macbookpro/
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