David B Teague wrote:
On 11/17/2010 7:46 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote:
We know the search function in Help Viewer is not optimal. To say it
politely.
We have many good ideas how to improve the search, but unfortunately
we do not have resources to do the hard work of coding. Volunteers
are very welcome.
Granting all you say about OO.o's help, I think OO.o help still beats
the out what I recall of Microsoft's manuals. MS' manuals appear to
be for the raw beginner, but if you have anything hard, the manuals
don't get there. That isn't true of OO.o's help.
Kudos to the documentation team.
--David
Actually David, you are being more generous to M$ than they deserve. M$
is another of those companies like Dell and HP who used to do much
better than they do today. Windows 3x and Windows 95 came with nice
thick informative manuals. Win 7 comes with something that it would be
generous to call a leaflet. I went to their Win website to see if I
could download something, and I found nothing. By using Google, I
finally did manage to find a manual for Win 7 by M$. But you should not
have to jump through hoops to get a manual. OOo also needs to do better
in this. I still say that there should be a users manual right in the
download package. And to keep it to a managable size, it should be in
ODF format not PDF and it should be formatted 8.5x11, not 5x7. Also it
should be edited down to no more than 100 pages so that the end users
might actually decide to print it on hard copy. It would probably be
best to just touch lightly on the modules other than Writer, telling the
user where to go to download seperate manuals for Calc, Impress, Draw,
Base and Math.
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