Dear Harold.
First thanks for answering. I just think that because OpenOffice is so popular
the to create OfineOneNote might be gratefully accepted by a lot of students
too. OpenDraw is great instead of Publisher or PowerPoint. It works well for
me! OneNote is good if you are just noting down thoughts for there us no
saving at all and you do not forget important things, www pages etc. I just
thought that you wanted ideas as well from users like me too!
It is strange but when my daughter was born in Holland the TandyII came on the
market and that was in 1978, so email was not around then so I presume you
meant to say 1988?
My ex-husband was working in the Silicon Valley in 1974 and installed the
massive computer for the ANWB in De Hague. The computer is not new to me! Did
some programming in Cobol, Fortran, then Pascal. I have forgotten most of it
but if you need a bit of help I could be helpful!
----- Original Message -----
From: Harold Fuchs
To: [email protected]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [users] An idea from a grandma in the outback!
2008/7/18 Yolanthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Dear Readers and programmers,
Simple stuff really and it has to remain very simple indeed for grandmas
like me. There is OneNote 2007 that I do use all the time, so I wonder if that
can be included or all people to use?
There is the fact that out in the middle of the bush (I live in W
Australia) people can use it without being on the internet? Evernote does not
do that so if I want to send it to a grandson in Mt Keith he cannot start
Evernote or OneNote either. There are people who need grandmas to give them
programs they can use beyond the black stump!
Regards from Yolanthe
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First, OneNote is a Microsoft product and is not free. Evernote doesn't seem
to be free either.
OpenOffice is free but it might be too complicated for you even though there
are many grandmas using it. I know because several of them help out in this
support group answering questions the callow youths are too thick to work out
for themselves - no common sense these days! Just to prove the point, even
though I'm not a grandma, I did have my first e-mail address in 1979.
It depends on what you want to do. Windows comes with Wordpad which is a
simple program for creating documents that can be quite pretty. It can easily
be used for note taking. Wordpad documents can easily be printed and attached
to e-mails that most people will be able to open. You can find Wordpad via
Start>All Programs>Accessories>Wordpad.
OpenOffice is a complete "office suite". Even though it's completely free it
competes quite happily with Microsoft Office. If you are interested you can
read about it by going to www.openoffice.org and then clicking on "I want to
learn more about OpenOffice.org".
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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