(I tried to send this out a few minutes ago but it didn't appear to go out.  
My apologies if this is a repeat mailing.)

Thanks for the welcome. I'm hoping I can help out in some way with  
documentation. I checked the documentation web site but it seems to be  
unavailable 
right now, so I'll keep trying.

I worked as a product  development engineer for many years (non computer rel
ated product), until I had  to opportunity to take an early retirement offer 
last year. On that job, I used  MS Word and Excel on a daily basis for at least 
10 years. I've taught adult  education courses in Excel for around 4 years 
now. I've used strictly OpenOffice  on my home computer for the past 3 years. 

Recently, I started a part  time job as the OpenOffice trainer for a 
non-profit health-care organization  that is transitioning its 200 computer 
users from 
MS Office to OpenOffice. This  has provided me the opportunity to greatly 
expand my knowledge of OpenOffice.  Before this job, I thought I knew 
OpenOffice 
fairly well; but I knew what *I*  used OpenOffice for, which was a small 
fraction of the full capabilities of the  suite. Now as people come to me with 
questions about things that I never faced  in my own use, I need to do some 
quick 
learning myself to be able to assist  them, to minimize the time and 
frustration they might spend trying to work  things out on their own.

I greatly appreciate all of the documentation  that exists, and the users 
formum where I've submitted a number of questions  already (and received 
helpful 
answers). I'm looking to do something to  contribute to help make the 
documentation even better.

Dick Detwiler,  Webster, NY 
 
In a message dated 10/27/2005 8:41:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

A big  welcome to you. As you have joined our merry little
group today, I   encourage you to take a pass through the task list and
see if anything  attracts your interest.  You might also like to email
the list with a  short bio.

Great to have you.




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