Actually Office Dog (from Microsoft Bob) was still around in Office 2004, never used Office 2007 or later, but if you have a copy and the ability to choose 'helpers' is still available, I'll bet he's still in there. They never through anything out.
Making people think is something we should all do. A friend of mine agreed to help me with a novel I was stuck on. Rather than tell me what I was doing wrong, she (a professional novelist) asked me a bunch of questions. I learned more from trying to answer her questions, then I would if she'd just told me where I'd made the mistakes. A lot more. The novel is nearly finished, or I should say the first draft is nearly finished. It's been an interesting journey. Wayne On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Bruce Carlson <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes Wayne, > > But you know as well as I do that simply following the leader or blindly > following someone else's ideas is no substitute for thinking. > Otherwise there would be no evolution only extinction. > Could you give us readers a quick list of other short term "species" that > never survived past MS. Like office dog for example. > > Two of my favourite expressions:- > 1: It's amazing how the youth of today are so eager to instil upon > their elders the benefit of their inexperience. > 2: It's sad how the elders of today are so reluctant to entertain the > fresh ideas of their children. > > By the way, my first desktop machine was an old cpm machine and I'm sure it > had no numbers but it did have an external 256k RAM drive and two 10 inch > floppies. The operating system was compiled by a guy calling himself "Micro > Pete". > my programing path is:- machine code (in industrial switching applications) > to assembler to Fortran to C to Cobol to basic to c++ to gw basic to qbasic > to vb to visual c++ to dot net basic to c#. Along the way, add sql, aspx, > MONO, 4GL, Delphi and a few mainframe scripting languages like REX that I > can't remember a thing about. > (funny how so many were MS languages. Must have had something to do with > industry demands at the time.) > > Because I'm at work and using MS outlook 2010, I'll send this as soon as I > can find where they have hidden the bl&#@*y spell checker. > > And as a student of anthropology, I also liked your evolution theory. :-) > Keep up the good work in making people think. Challenging the norm. > > Bruce Carlson. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wayne Borean [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, 18 April 2011 12:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] question > > Ah, but the Ribbon menu is important. It's another evolutionary option for > the interface. Whether you like it or not is to a certain extent a matter > of > taste. Quite frankly I hated using a GUI for a long time. It slowed me down > too much. It still does slow me down in some ways, a command line is more > efficient IF YOU KNOW THE SYSTEM WELL. > > If you don't, a GUI is easier. > > And some of it is simply a matter of taste. If you grew up with curry on > your food, it won't taste right without it. > > Wayne > > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Bruce Carlson > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Yes I can understand how you, thinking that you are younger, feeling > > like you are mature, and all the time it is your inexperience that is > > restricting you to see only what is put in front of you and you are > > unable to use logic to put together all that surrounds you so > > therefore you, as are many other Y generationalists, (but not all), > > willing to accept only what you are told and unable to think outside the > square you are ordered to live in. > > To be honest with us and with yourself, if the reason you will not use > > LO is because you will only use an office suite if has ribbon button > > menus than you are the exact petty minded person that Microsoft relies > > on for it's future profits. > > > > > > Bruce Carlson > > an X gernerationalist. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Csenger Attila Szabó [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, 13 April 2011 6:06 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] question > > > > OK, in my case, the only reason why I DON'T use LO is the lack of ribbon. > > I accept that not everyone likes that, that's why I wrote the idea of > > an extensions or plugin. So those who like the ribbon would be able to > use > it. > > @Bruce: I have to disagree with you, I find the ribbon much faster and > > easier to use. And I'm not the only one, many of the people around, > > especially the younger ones find much more useful the ribbon than the > > dropdown menus. > > I know that those who get used to the menu-style won't like any other > > solution, but you are not the only ones. > > So what about the plugin/extension thing? > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting > > guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting > > guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting > guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
