James Knott wrote:
John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:15:15 +0000
david alistair baines <[email protected]> dijo:
I have just install the full suite of Open Office. I wanted to find an
alternative to MS. Power Point in Open Office but I cannot find it? Also
other MS. alternatives, such as Word, Excel, etc.
Word = Writer
Excel = Calc
Powerpoint = Impress
Access = Base
Having said that, while OOo has just about all the features of MS
Office, plus a few extras, you will find that all the buttons are in
different places and have different names. In the short run you will be
frustrated trying to figure out how OOo works, but people on this list
will help. Even dumb questions are welcome. And in the long run, you'll
be glad you made the switch.
Why would he be frustrated? I've introduced a few people to OpenOffice
and I don't recall them being frustrated.
It may depend on the computer literacy of the people converting from MS
Office to OpenOffice. I had a part-time job for about a year, training
people, who had done things in MS Office, how to use OpenOffice. The
people in general were not extremely computer literate. Very good at
their main jobs, just not real computer savvy. There was indeed quite a
bit of frustration, which is in fact why I was hired, to minimize the
frustration (and I feel that I did the reasonably well). But without
some instruction/handholding, their level of frustration would have
persisted, in many cases to the point of not wanting anything to do with
OpenOffice.
