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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sun Jul 12 17:04:48 
+0000 2009 -------
Still a serious usability problem in 3.1.0.  From the user's point of view, it 
is not at all obvious which will salutation will really be used in the letter.  
When I got to the "edit draft" stage, I had three saluations (male, female, and 
generic) - this is clearly inappropriate.  It seems like the salutation block 
is 
appended, not cleared if I uncheck one option and check another...

It is also far from clear what will happen if I didn't fill out the Gender 
field.  

All I really want my form letter to do is to say "Dear <Title> <Lastname>" 
regardless of the recipient's actual gender, or whether I've filled out the 
database gender field.  This is almost always the right thing to do, and the 
present UI seems to make it harder instead of easier.  [Overall, I'd rate ease 
of use in 3.1.0 as easier than raw Tex, but harder than LaTeX, and harder than 
the StarOffice/OpenOffice earlier releases.]

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