Whatever number it is, you can bet one thing: the overwhelming majority of those who bought OpenOffice in PPP form had never even heard of OOo before doing so, and they are people who would not be using OOo otherwise!
+1
As the technology director at a small, private, not-for-profit boarding school, I have been able to prevail on our school staff to adopt OpenOffice 2.0 at the beginning of the next school year, replacing Microsoft Office 2000 as the productivity suite used by our students.
Excellent job! You might also want to check out the INGOT program.
http://www.irlcomputers.com/ingots/content.php
services provided here, I can tell you that Peter Kupfer has the attitude that will endear new users, not chase them away.
<blush>:)</blush>
It seems you would be well advised to take your arguments to another venue, and present a happy face to the general OOo using public, many of whom don't know much about computing, but are keenly aware when they're being insulted.
+1
Having said that, I need to go back to work trying to print a simple #10 envelope in Writer, which I have unsuccessfully been attempting for an hour now, using the Insert>Envelope tool in the latest OOo distribution. It takes about a minute in Microsoft Works or Word, so why is it so glitchy in OOo?
Have you tries to link to a data source?
You can look at this doc, but it is pre-release and is not guaranteed to be accurate: <http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/writer/mail_mergev2_02Apr05_IR.sxw>.
HTH,
-- Peter Kupfer -- Using OOo since 'OO4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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