Hi :) I completely disagree with that. From what i see of "average" users even 10% might be far too high and it's the same 10% not a different 10% for each person.
A lot of secretaries and people that work with Word all day long consider the use of indent, tabs or tables rather than "lots of spaces" as scarily technical or over-complicated. Copy&paste is beyond a lot of people, especially using keyboard short-cuts. I have seen a lot of people with a spreadsheet open on their machine yet they reach for a calculator to add up a list of figures and i am talking about office managers, senior executives, accountants, not dumb idiots! A person that takes a LOT of pictures with an iPhone was shocked when i turned it sideways to see landscape pictures fill the screen. Using Calc does not mean using 1/6th of the functionality of the entire Suite. It often means just typing in numbers and maybe looking at the results at the end of the row. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 18/9/11, planas <[email protected]> wrote: From: planas <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 18 September, 2011, 6:53 David, On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 08:30 -0400, David B Teague sr wrote: > On 9/16/2011 6:56 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > > If you were able to ring-fence about 20% of the features of MS Office then > > about 80% of users never stray outside that. From what i see it's more > > like about 100% of users. Most users don't even use all of that 20%. > I hope this isn't hijacking the thread, and if so, /please /say so, and > I'll repost this in a new thread. > > The fact that 20% of the features of MS Office (and by implication, LO > and OO.o) used almost exclusively by some 80% of the users suggests to > me that OO.o should identify that 20% of features and modularize OO.o or > LO or what have you to include that 20% and make the other 80% of the > features available as extensions. > I think you will actually find individuals use about 20 - 25% of the features regularly but I think you will find there is very little overlap. This means that LO needs to cover about 75 - 85% of the features as a minimum to cover the user base. You will find users who will use one or two components almost exclusively and very rarely use the others. For example I use Writer and Calc extensively, Base occasionally, and almost never use Impress or Draw. > I'd like comments on this idea. > > David Teague > > -- > nil significat nisi oscillat > > -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
