I am facing similar things also here in my country Indonesia and the
approach I use is to ask or help the person to install LibreOffice on
their respective operating system. I am trying to make everybody
installs LibreOffice on their Windows computers. This way I believe we
do not lose our Open
On 05/05/20 15:16 wrote:
> Please don't use the term "computer illiterate".
> Illiterate person is the one who can't read and/or write.
> The term "computer illiterate" doesn't make any sense and sounds
> disrespectful.
The term "computer illiterates" was broadly used in English
language in
Saving your spreadsheets as Microsoft OOXML (.xlsx) format defeats all your
efforts to promote free software. By doing so, you make it even more
difficult for your audience to switch to free/libre software. Keep in mind
that sending proprietary format files is always the worst practice,
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=R7feFEWu25A
David Allen and Steve Lowry talk about the development of the Acorn BBC Micro
computer and the Computer Literacy Project.
Since I am not highly literate in English, I used that opportunity to improve
my skills and found these to be accepted meanings for "illiterate":
"Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge:
musically illiterate."
"Displaying a marked lack of knowledge in a
In the 80's, BBC had a CLP – Computer Literacy project. BBC Micro and Acorn
computers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/pilots/computer-literacy-project
>Please don't use the term "computer illiterate".
>Illiterate person is the one who can't read and/or write.
>The term "computer illiterate" doesn't make any sense and sounds
disrespectful.
Interesting comment. If I have time I will start a thread on that subject in
"The Troll Lounge"
@ boba
Thank you for your 2 last replies.
Your response has been more than highly satisfactory.
If I knew how to use rating system of this forum I would give you the highest
score
I have experienced much more glitches sending ods/odt files than sending
xlsx/docx files to MS Office users.
I see.
I have been using xlsx and docx files for similar purposes to yours, in a
similar situation. My experience is that if there is no heavy formatting, the
program you used to create them will most probably be transparent to the
recipients. I have sometimes also experienced unexpected
Please don't use the term "computer illiterate".
Illiterate person is the one who can't read and/or write.
The term "computer illiterate" doesn't make any sense and sounds
disrespectful.
I really don't know if recipients will want to modify what I am sending them.
I would't mind if they want to do so.
That's why I thought of sending them an editable spreadsheet and not a pdf
file. I want to make things for them as easier as possible.
Don't you think that sending an xlsx file
Do the recipients of the data need to modify them?
If not, would a pdf file do the job?
At least for the last decade I have only used GNU-LINUX programs and Gnumeric
has been one that has given me the most satisfaction. I'm using Flidas almost
since it was launched.
Now I need to share some of the data I keep on Gnumeric spreadsheets with
people whose computing knowledge is
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