On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:09:26 +1100, Terry wrote: > Paul_B wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:53:03 -0700, Matt Nicolaysen wrote: >> >> >>> I love OOo and have been a big fan since before 1.0 I was a convert to OOo >>> and was really excited to have an alternative to the expensive heavy-hitter, >>> Microsoft Office. >>> >>> One of my dear friends just recently asked me to join him in the beta >>> testing of Microsoft's new Office 2007. It is pretty amazing. I hope you >>> can get your hands on a copy and see the new interface. I think a lot of >>> the improvements I could suggest would be in the OOo interface. If you >>> could make the OOo interface more like the new Office 2007 interface then >>> OOo could win many more converts. >>> >>> Thanks for all of the hard work you do and for the wonderful software! >>> >>> -Matthew T. Nicolaysen >>> >> >> I think the beta program is over. They gave me an incredibly hard >> - actually, impossible - time about signing up for it last week. >> Finally I tried out the online version of the prog today. I have >> to say that it looked pretty good. The mail merge, for instance, >> was quite intuitive. I like OO very much, but it's inner workings >> are often far from intuitive. >> >> p. > > I guess that's what money can do. This is largely a community effort > without input from large ticket prices. Those who want more just have > to contribute more.
Maybe monetary contributions would help? But I've come across a defensiveness when I sometimes make suggestions or criticisms that I mean to be constructive, which leads me to think that money is not the problem. Some people, who seem to be in key positions, like the way OO's internal structure is organized. p. -- Using OOo 2.0.3 on Win XP sp2. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
