Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo (This may be a bit late, but...)

2010-07-23 Thread Gregory Forster
-byrd.net Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010 9:40:14 PM Subject: Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo (This may be a bit late, but...) Dear Greg: I seem to have caught up with this one a bit late. It seems to me that I have heard that both Souyth Africa and France 's government have adopted Oo, and I think

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-22 Thread Marcello Romani
Bruce Martin ha scritto: Dear Users: [snip nonsense] Dear Martin, I hope you understand you are pissing off thousands of list followers by imposing a reply request just for your convenience. This is a really stupid and arrogant behaviour. Please stop putting reply request and manage

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-22 Thread Vlastimil Ott
Dne St 21. Ĩervence 2010 00:17:32 RA Brown napsal(a): If you have not already found it, http://marketing.openoffice.org/ is a good starting point. Also check the mailing list archives from the page. It is not. This is not marketing, this is a developer wiki. Say it loud: there are no case

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread webmas...@krackedpress.com
On 07/20/2010 06:17 PM, RA Brown wrote: Gregory Forster wrote: OOo's web site has been changed, so I can't find the information I need. I need help! This Saturday, a computerized system will be voted on. On the table is a very expensive, overly elaborate database that does much more

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Paula Johnson
I don't know if this will be at all helpful, but I live in state funded public housing and I do volunteer work for the director. State funded housing is suffering badly. While funding has not increased, expenses continue to rise. I am assisting the part-time director because she is unable to

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread jomali
@Paula, It's great that you have found using OOo so helpful. However, you could give back to the community by sharing the glitches you have found with Calc. Perhaps users could help you overcome those glitches, or perhaps your experience would help developers to improve the system. Jomali On

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Paula Johnson
Hi Jomali, I'm still figuring my way around OO, but I'll try. The biggest concern I have is, when I format the cells in a column, the format doesn't hold or it formats other (unwanted) columns. For instance, I formatted the zip code column (OO's address book) so it would show zero as the first

RE: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Paula: As it was easier to control what I had to say in an .ODT, I have attached it here, along with the corresponding .PDF in case it needs to be read by someone who does not use Oo. Best regards, Bruce M. email to [users] July 2010.odt Description:

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Jeffrey Needle
A question for Bruce Martin, if I may: Why do all your mails come with a request to confirm that the e-mail was received? It's really annoying to have to tell my mail reader to ignore the request each time. Do you have a reason for this behavior? Is there a way for you to disable this in

RE: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Martin
. Best Regards, Bruce Martin -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Needle [mailto:jeff.nee...@gmail.com] Sent: July 21, 2010 2:54 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo A question for Bruce Martin, if I may: Why do all your mails come with a request to confirm

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.07.21 12:00 -0500, Paula Johnson wrote: I'm still figuring my way around OO, but I'll try. The biggest concern I have [with Calc] is, when I format the cells in a column, the format doesn't hold or it formats other (unwanted) columns. ... Paula, I don't /know/ if

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-21 Thread RA Brown
Bruce Martin wrote: Dear Users: In addition to my email traffic here, I follow up with many others whose availability is apt to be uncertain or unstable. {much clipped} What you say is true, but why insist that we refuse a Return Receipt when you do not have to send them? With Thunderbird

[users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-20 Thread Gregory Forster
OOo's web site has been changed, so I can't find the information I need. I need help! This Saturday, a computerized system will be voted on. On the table is a very expensive, overly elaborate database that does much more than required, akin to a little old lady putting a Ferrari drive

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-20 Thread RA Brown
Gregory Forster wrote: OOo's web site has been changed, so I can't find the information I need. I need help! This Saturday, a computerized system will be voted on. On the table is a very expensive, overly elaborate database that does much more than required, akin to a little old lady

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo

2010-07-20 Thread Gregory Forster
Thanks. I was able to print a lot out. Unfortunately, all the product flyers seem to show OpenOffice 2.0, not 3 Greg From: RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010 5:17:32 PM Subject: Re: [users] Need help

Re: [users] Need help to Market OOo (This may be a bit late, but...)

2010-07-20 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Greg: I seem to have caught up with this one a bit late. It seems to me that I have heard that both Souyth Africa and France 's government have adopted Oo, and I think there were other national governments that have also, not to mention various corporations. Added to that, do your