Le 2010-10-19 23:02, Michel Gagnon a écrit :
Hello everyone,
I think I am the sole member of Québec so far. My mother tongue is
French and I generally work in French using French-language software,
but I agree with what has been said so far: a single North-American
list serves us much better than many regional lists.
Contrary to many others, I am neither a programmer nor an IT
technician. I am a power user and support my colleagues at the office
(with outside help for difficult problems) and at home.
I have had an interest in OpenOffice for a long time, but basically,
OpenOffice 1 and 2 had a major bug which made it almost non-usable for
me: the "space before" a paragraph appeared even when said paragraph
was at the top of the page.
At the moment, I use both Microsoft Office 2003 and OpenOffice 3.2 and
I try to use either one when they are most suitable. I prefer Writer
for long documents with variables and complex stylesheets, but Word
for short documents or those that need to be typeset. I feel equally
at ease with Calc and Excel, but I have yet to do anything decent with
Impress. Often, I have to say that I must use Microsoft products
because that's what our customers need. If I post a Word or Excel
document on our company website, our clients consider it worthy; it I
post a Writer or Calc document, they all complain about that
"unreadable document". Some of our clients do not have enough computer
literacy to install OpenOffice, the others don't have the permissions
to do so; therefore it is Microsoft or PDF documents! As an engineer,
a good part of my work load is spent writing technical and other
support documents as well as presentation files that my colleagues use
when they train our customers.
I have to say that my input time is limited. I am torn between this
new product (still beta), the fairly reliable OOo 3.2 (and, alas, the
needed Microsoft Office). I definitely have ideas about what is needed
to make the LibreOffice interface more user-friendly and I could
provide some input on French translations, but I have a limited amount
of time.
Merci Michel et bienvenue à l'équipe de marketing canadienne. Hence, I
no longer blush when I talk of the Canadian Marketing Team, we are two!
Welcome! Any donation of your time and your contributions will be most
appreciated.
Marc Paré
Canadian Marketing Team
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Marc Paré
http://www.parEntreprise.com
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