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Dan Lewis is the main contact for the Base Guide. --Jean On Sunday, February 14, 2010, Mike Weland <publici...@boundarycountyid.org> wrote: > Greetings! > > My name is Mike Weland, I'm zoning administrator and public information > officer for Boundary County, Idaho, and a long-time professional writer and > editor. > > Having recently switched from Microsoft Office to Open Office, I am impressed > and appreciative, and willing to assist in the endeavor to write the users > manual ... or any other wordsmith tasks you might have. > > I'm a computer geek of long-standing, having made the shift from an old > Underwood to the miraculous Royal 7000 Word Processor as a military clerk > with the 82nd Airborne in 1981; I "digitized" my unit on 5 1/4" floppy disks > and went on to program slide shows for top brass on the venerable Apple IIe. > > I rarely touched a computer after leaving the Army in 1983, but fell back > into it when I became a reporter in Bonners Ferry in 1991, not from the > programming side, but from the application user's side. I've set up and > upgraded relational databases in FileMaker Pro, and I've built and maintained > numerous web sites dedicated to publishing news and information. > > I'm an expert at interview, I know how to research and I know how to write. > If there is anything I can do to further the Open Office mission, I am > willing to contribute. > > Please let me know if and how I might be of help ... and please recognize > that as a special assignment reporter, I work best when given a specific > assignment ... the more arcane the better. > > If there is a particular area or topic you would like covered, I would > appreciate the chance to tackle it. > > > > Mike Weland > 35 Clifty View Road > Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805 > (208) 267-7212 (work days) > publici...@boundarycountyid.org > mikewel...@gmail.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org