Irv Cobb wrote:
Keith Bates wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:35:44 -0800
"Robert Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
O.K. Got it. Apparently I am not the only one who does not know the
meaning of "to associate MS Office files with OpenOffice". I had no
idea this selection would "take over my files", as one user
remarked.
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I'm primarily a Linux user, and have been using OOo for a long time, but
I think that people are reading "are to be opened" to mean "are able to
be opened." They then interpret "automatically" to mean that if they
don't check the boxes the MS filetypes will be difficult to open
("manual").
If you don't understand what is going to happen if you tick the boxes
then don't tick the boxes!
Maybe the solution is to have big flashing red screens that say
"DANGER!!! You have chosen that when you click on doc files they
will open with Open Office. Are you sure?" Then if you click "Yes",
another one that says "Are you really really sure". And another one
that says "One last chance now. Choose carefully"
Probably a bit over the top. ;-)
But there's no doubt that the language in this DB is still confusing
people and needs to be changed (again) to be made clear.
Irv
Perhaps the problem is that OpenOffice is becoming popular with people
who are very new to computers, and those of us who are very familiar
with computers forget what it's like to not understand the terminology.
Kira
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