On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:08:53 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: >> This is not directed at you. I appreciate your trying to help. >> But I'm finding that almost every time I try to dive into >> something with OO I get stymied. It's fine for basic functions, >> but for advanced things it's logic is very much unintuitive. I >> was up and running with mail merge in Word in ten minutes; it >> took me about 2 hours in OO. Macros I still haven't gotten to >> first base with. Frames are not documented. > > May I suggest that you have a look at the 1.1.x User Guide > ( http://tinyurl.com/8zlay ) and/or the 2.0 User Guide > (http://tinyurl.com/bwfrp) both have lots on frames. Plus on > http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html there are also > all the OOoAuthors guides. Bound to be something on frames in these too. > Lots on macros too.
The 2.0 UGs have nothing on frames yet. It's promised. Guess I need to check out the 1.1s. Maybe it's me, but I find the macro language impossible, much more difficult than vba. > Then there are the other repositories at > http://documentation.openoffice.org/ like the HOW-TOs and so on. I > think by using these you might be able to get your head around frames. > As to mail merge, I believe this is also documented in the guides while > the on-line help could be considered a bit techie it is there too. 2.0 > is still a work in progress so I do not know how mail merge will work > at release time. However, I do know there is work being done to also > have mail merge in 2.x work directly with email. I've been in them this week, and they were indeed helpful for the likes of mail merge. It's just that I continually find myself in conflict with the logic of OO's organization, its functions and wizards, and that necessitates studying every step of the way for each function, rather than a more smooth reliance on intuition. >> I'm not complaining, I'm stating. I need to get a handle on this >> situation. I believe in OO. I would like to make MS irrelevant. I >> would even pay for OO if it did the job. > > It does and that search on the main site doesn't work well enough to > bring up what is on docs doesn't help you or others either. > ( http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52046 ) "It does"? Not following the logic of your answer here. >> This leaves me in a difficult situation. At present it's very >> hard for me to grow into OO. But I do not want to go back to MS. >> > > I have recognized that getting to existing docs can be a huge problem. > That is one of the reasons I answer here even when I should be working > on the 2.0 guide and setup guide and doc project admin stuff :-) so > people can find something to help them get going. I would ask anyone who > can to get on board docs and contribute where possible. I appreciate your work here and that of others. I think, however, that I'm up against a very basic conflict with the writers of OO about how to go about doing things. I hate to say it, but I gravitate more toward the way Word97 is thought out. When I spend half an hour trying to figure out how to automate mass changes to a spelling list, and get nowhere using with spelling options, the search and replace function, or macros, but then can figure out how to do it intuitively in Word in 4 minutes - and when that is typical of my attempts to get familiar with the somewhat more advanced functions in OO - I've got a problem. p. -- Using OOo 1.9.125 on Win XP sp2. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
