Andrew Jensen wrote:
Hi,
Needless to say I am surprised by the apparent interest in the simple
tutorial. In truth it is more to do with timing then anything, I just
got it there first.
I would reword this and change ".. I just go it there first" to "I was
the first to create very good complete materials that are accessible to
a wide range of audiences". In other words, you produce quality material.
Now the reason for this mail. I would like to take the text and screen
shots I used for the posting and move them into a written tutorial. My
plan is to use the chapter template from this site for the format.
Additionally there have been a few people asking if I have something
similar that would cover some of the issues (views, real use of sub
forms and macros) in the same fashion as this tutorial. Looking at
another of the postings from the forum I am immediately struck with a
database I helped a fellow make for tracking Layaways at his retail
store. It covers exactly the things asked for, in what I think is a
clear and concise way. The posts are very detailed and the final
product is actually quite nice.
OK...so, I would like some input on this. I copied the postings text
and pasted into a writer document, dropped in the screen shots and
exported the document - raw, if you will - as a pdf file. I have moved
this file up to the oooAuthors board at my home page, it is named
employees Table Tutorial
<http://oooauthors.org/Members/DrewJensen/employees_tutorial.pdf/file_view>
It is roughly 7,000 words and perhaps a dozen screen shots. The style
is very conversational - which is a nice way of saying - I just spewed
it out off the top of my head. I am not asking for someone to ghost
write the published version, just give me an opinion as to if you
think it is worth the effort trying to clean it up. I am not adverse
to someone wanting to take a more active role with me however and
would surely give credit accordingly.
Prepping to leave town for my vacation :-)
A second question I have is this. Given that the first tutorial has
already been out on the forum board for a while, do folks think it
might make more sense to work on the second 'Layaway' tutorial first.
My initial thought is no, because it truly does seem like a perfect
fit as a second and complimentary companion to the techniques covered
in the first. I will be coalescing the multiple messages from this
thread into the same type of post on the board over the next few days,
either way.
So, if anyone has a few spare minutes I would very much appreciate
your input.
Thanks
Andrew 'Drew' Jensen
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