David Forbes wrote:
I *can* figure out how to use OO spreadsheet print ranges. I can use OO and MS Excell, and print.
Unfortunately, my wife cannot figure it all out and asks me to do the OO spreadsheet printing for her - regularly.
What is it that she can't figure out, and how do you do it in Excel. I guess what I am asking, is how should OOo be to make it simpler. You listed what you thought was illogical, but what it logical. To a person who hasn't used in Excel in a while, I am used to OOo's method, so I don't know how Excel does it (and I don't think I ever did in Excel either.)
The printing must be easy for the general non-technical to use, as MS Office generally is, otherwise the non-technical will reject OO and stick to MS - which my wife seems to do.
+1
MS Excell allows cell notes to be written comprehensively. OO will display these notes if they are written in in Excell, but does not allow comprehensive notes to be written in in OO. So again my wife uses
MS excell to do the cell notes.
Has she tried *Insert > Note*. The only real difference I have noticed is that the notes in Calc do not always stay up like they do in Excel and I can't find an option to leave them up in 1.1.4, maybe in 2.0.
OO is good, but unfortunately it has areas that are incomprehensible to
the non-technical. The non-technical make the product popular, not people like me who are technical.
You are *100%* correct. OOo 2, makes a lot of strides (that many OOo-Junkies dislike) towards making OOo more non-tech friendly. Have you look at the beta?
What OOo needs is people like you, and more specifically, like your wife who are not "technical" that can point out where we are still confusing and point us in the right direction.
Have a good one, -- Peter Kupfer -- Using OOo since 'OO4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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