Christopher Burke wrote:
I've got 18 Computing quals, mainly in old-school stuff like Basic and Cobol,
but a fair few in Databases, WordProcessing and Spreadsheets. I wouldn't call
myself an Industry Whizz, but I'm good enough to be able to sort out most
problems people have with any of the above and I'd love to help either by being
someone you can send people's questions to and I'll try to help them out, or if
loads of people seem to be getting stuck in the same area I'm happy to sort out
the problem and write a 'how-to', or anything else you can think of. Like you
say, you're providing the software for free so it's only right us users give a
little back.
I've only just found out about OpenOffice and I'm downloading it for the first
time, so I don't know if there's a Publisher element with it. But if there is,
I'm also good with Desktop Publishing, I know about how to convert a DTP page
to a Web page and make areas 'clickable', for example, or anything else along
those lines. With Microsoft Office, you can also link spreadsheets to
webpages. I don't know if you can do that with OpenOffice but if you can, I'll
find out how to and be able to talk people through that sort of stuff, too.
Basically, you tell me what you want me to do and I'll give it my best shot.
Can't promise omnipotent excellence - wish I could! - but I CAN promise to
always try and usually succeed somehow. Might be a little unconventional but I
usually succeed somehow!
Yours eagerly - the software's just finished downloading and I'm off to try it out -
I hope you're enjoying trying out OpenOffice.org (OOo). By now I'm
sure you've discovered that there is no Publisher equivalent, but
Writer has desktop publishing capabilities as good as, if not better
than, MS Word. We use Writer for layout and publishing of the user
guides for OOo.
As for converting to Web pages, OOo will do it but the result isn't
great. We've not written much about using OOo for creating and/or
editing HTML pages, but there probably are things to be said about
best practices in this area.
OOo does have an XForms capability, which is especially useful for
extracting info from forms on Web pages and getting that info into a
database. At present there is nothing in the user guides about that
process, but we would like to have a chapter (or part of the existing
chapter on Forms on that topics, so iif you can write about that
process it would fill a gap. (Although the user guides don't have this
info, some how-to's do exist on other people's websites.)
Two other areas needing help are the Base Guide (of which very little
has even reached the early draft stage) and the Calc Guide, which is
in draft but several chapters need to be improved -- and someone
familiar with spreadsheets may know of good examples or even topics
that aren't covered at all in the draft.
All of this work is taking place on the OOoAuthors website and through
the OOoAuthors list. Clayton earlier sent info on how to join that
list. Hope to see you there soon!
--Jean
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