On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 12:05 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list > Sorry to roll 5 questions into one i know it makes it hard to respond. > > Background: > > Bristol city council are acting as a testbed in the UK for opensource > software. > http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/02/23/bristol_migration.html > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2126193/uk-council-dumps-microsoft-open-source > They are using star office. It seems some of the training has not been up to > scratch and users are having problems, now i realise that they _should_ be > getting that support from elsewhere. I feel it will reflect badly on Star/open > office if they dont get the support from somewhere... can anyone help? > > > Problems: > > 1, Would you care to explain the mail merge function and how it relates to > Word > Perfect/Word? >
Please explain more fully. Mailmerges work either by producing documents to print or to generate emails assuming OOo 2.0.1 at a minimum release level. For help with 2.0, please see http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/Email_mailmerge.pdf > 2, how do you create graphs? > In which module? For spreadsheets Insert > Chart should be enough. Of course, using the User Guide may help. The OOo guides are at http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html > 3, how do you import graphics? > Import is an Insert function. Insert > Picture and the user gets to choose a file or to scan. > 4,how do you produce tables in landscape format in a portrait document? > See the user guides. http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html > 5, Perhaps you could also explain why you can only number a 74 page document > up > to 29? > Supply the document and we can try to analyze the problem. Put it on the website and post the URL here to the list. > Nobody else can. The council's "Star Team" can't. They only offer basic > courses > not advanced ones because they can't use the advanced functions either. > Similar problems exist with spreadsheets too. It's chaos and many people are > querying whether the new software is up to it. > > Some of these have IMO been answered already in the thread questions 4 + 5 > definately need more support... > > the thread is here: > http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=24725Array&sc=1 > Sam, Perhaps getting a consultant to help would be a good approach. You can choose one local from http://bizdev.openoffice.org/consultants.html that offers training. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
