I feel your pain. It took me three or four attempts to finally accept open office as an alternative to MSO. The biggest obstacle was trying to do things the same way that I did in Word and Excel. Once I got past that, I found that in many areas, OOo is better than MSO. My kids (oldest is 12) don't seem to have any trouble. My wife, who's used MSO and Corel suite can't seem to do anything without help. (Must be sure to delete all traces of this mail before she sees it. :-o)
The help thing a little tricky. There's a picklist at the top of the left pane that will allow you to choose which module's help file you're looking at. If you use the links in the right panel, you'll stay with that module. 'Find' searches the help for all modules, though. Part of the problem is different terminology from Microsoft's.
Setting up some filters in you email client and using a threaded will help you sift through the all the emails coming from this list.
tc
p.s. I've cc'd you directly in case you've unsubscribed.
Russell Kent wrote:
Hallo Everyone,
I downloaded Open Office about a month ago. Since then I have spent very many frustrating hours trying to use it.
The help files are extremely unhelpful. If I try to follow them, I get nowhere. There is no distinction in the help file of which aspect of Open Office the help advice refers to, particularly tables in the writer programme and not the spreadsheet programme.
If I contact open office, they tell me to contact the users group, where I am bombarded with at least one hundred messages a day, none of them of any use to me.
Say what you want about Microsoft Office, at least a non-techie can use it to produce things they want to.
If Open Office is progress to a point where it is a realistic alternative, these issues have to be addressed.
Russ Kent
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