Bernard: I'm sure other members of this forum with much more experience than I have can provide more information, but here are some of the places I've found helpful: 1. The OOo Help, from within the application. (Very helpful usually, but some of the content isn't quite correct.) 2. Calc tips: _http://www.openofficetips.com/_ (http://www.openofficetips.com/) 3. Tutorials: _http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/_ (http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/) 4. The OOo 2.0 users guide: _http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf_ (http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf) 5. FAQ: _http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/index.html_ (http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/index.html) 6. Users mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[email protected]) ; archive at _http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=users_ (http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=users) Hope that's somewhat helpful. Dick, Webster, NY In a message dated 10/27/2005 2:52:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hope you don't mind, but I have just switched to Open Office myself, I would like to know how to access all this documentation you mention. Where should I look specifically. I have obviously been going to the wrong place. I have used MS Office Professional going back to 3.1. I am not dumb as I have my MCSE, CCNA, S+ certs and have worked with computers since the IBM 360 model 40 card sorter days. BUT, I am experiencing this block of locating the info I seek. Thank you for any assistance you are willing to provide. Bernard G. Roderick Singleton wrote: >On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 10:51 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> (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. >> >> >> >> >> >> > >Since you are teaching, perhaps you would be so kind as to have a look >at a presentation I made for a LUG meeting. It is cobbled together and >saddly out of date. Any improvements would be appreciated and then we >could stick it on site in the main repository. Docs and files is NOT a >good place. The URL to the file is >http://documentation.openoffice.org/files/documents/75/2635/tlug2005.odp > >If you can handle Issue Tracker, we can make a task for this very easily >as well. > > >
