On 07/21/2010 07:40 AM, Paula Johnson 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
Rock on Paula! Once you get OOo sorted out, drop me a line directly & I'll be happy to help you move on to linux & other opensource applications. Put 'Need help to Market OOo' in the subject field so that I don't drop you in the spam filters. :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
