On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 18:38:13 +1000 Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Glad to hear you're on the job; wasn't sure if your other work/life > was interfering. Yes, took on a "rescue dog" a few weeks ago, an 8 year old standard poodle I named Doctor Who. Bit of a handful, trying to catch up the missing 8 years of training in a few weeks. But we are ok :=) After I finish the PT/DP I will go across to the Draw chapters. Slightly OT but perhaps relevant: With my Windows hat on, I am programming an MS Access VBA application at present, relatively complicated with table linking, multi user across a network, containing various input forms/subforms, many different reports with forms for input of parameters for the queries, and so on. You get the idea. I have both printed and pdf versions of major books about Access and VBA (1000 pages plus in some cases) from Que, O'Reilly etc. The point is, that at a certain point, the questions I have are not answered in these books. I find the answers on forums and other web based resources via Google. Some blogs and wikis are useful also. A second point is the speed of access. It is (usually) slower to search a book (one pdf at a time) than to use Google. Of course with a text search facility like Recoll (Linux) or Sleuthhound (Windows) searching becomes more efficient, but still limited to what you have on your hard drive/local server(s). And this does not address the online/offline questions, nor problems encountered by those with slow internet access speeds. But my point is, we have all this really good _basic_ information contained in the Guides. What about the power users? Who addresses their needs? Do we need some sort of cookbook of ideas/FAQs or whatever in a Wiki format? Harvested from user forums etc? I remember some years ago we had or were looking at a system of harvesting ideas - I think Jonathan was across it IIRC?? The sheer number of posts and checking if proposed solutions are still applicable would be horrendous to perform manually I suppose. This does not attempt to propose a solution, just stimulate some ideas. Interesting that Ubuntu have also recognised the need to cater for both "newbies" and power users with the release of 11.04 - perceived by many power users (Linus T included) as a dumbing down of the system. just a few cents worth of thoughts this morning regards M -- Martin J Fox 马丁·福克斯 mar...@mjfox.ch buti...@bluewin.ch _______________________________________ VK7MM/HB9TQX www.mjfox.ch / www.badwolf.ch QQ 1472808085 / MSN buti...@hotmail.com There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. Email sent using Axigen Free Mail Server: http://www.axigen.com/mail-server/free -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
