Hi Jomali, I'm still figuring my way around OO, but I'll try. The biggest concern I have is, when I format the cells in a column, the format doesn't hold or it formats other (unwanted) columns. For instance, I formatted the zip code column (OO's address book) so it would show zero as the first number. After I did that, another column, far from the zip code column, began to put 4 zeroes at the beginning of the number. When I formatted a column to align left, it suddenly stopped aligning after about 5 entries, even though I highlighted the entire column from the very top. I finally got it to work by manually scrolling down more than 900 cells and re-formatting the cells from there. This is tiresome busy work, but in the long run, this is open source and we desperately need it.
I am grateful to have Open Office so I can help my low income housing agency, which I need so badly. I worked my a## off in human services all my life, but I was raising 4 daughters (with no child support; this has thankfully changed), so I was unable to save for retirement. It is my honor to be able to help other poor people, particularly women (who predominently need this housing), by assisting our director and board in providing affordable housing to those of us who worked all our lives, but are now unable to afford decent housing in the USA. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:45 AM, jomali <[email protected]> wrote: > @Paula, > > It's great that you have found using OOo so helpful. However, you could > give > back to the community by sharing the glitches you have found with Calc. > Perhaps users could help you overcome those glitches, or perhaps your > experience would help developers to improve the system. > > Jomali > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Paula Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I don't know if this will be at all helpful, but I live in state funded > > public housing and I do volunteer work for the director. State funded > > housing is suffering badly. While funding has not increased, expenses > > continue to rise. I am assisting the part-time director because she is > > unable to keep up with day to day tasks and there is no mioney in the > > budget > > for an assistant. In fact, the board has voted for her increase in > salary > > every year, but she has refused to accept a raise for several years now, > > due > > to budget shortfalls. > > > > The director has never heard of Open Office. I offered to put all > > application information onto an Open Office spreadsheet, thereby > > streamlining her work. She accepted my offer and I began the data entry > > process this morning. > > Our housing authority is small and cannot afford to purchase up-to-date > > software. Sure, I've run in to some glitches in the spreadsheet. If we > > paid big money for it I would give it a bad review; however, with > > some patience and no money, it is doing what it needs to do and is a big > > help here. > > > > I hope this is helpful to you, > > Paula Johnson > > West Boylston, MA > > >
