Jennifer, I just forwarded the message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard
Detweiler) about his newsletter, so you should probably correspond with
him about it. When you aren't subscribed to the mailing list, you can
miss messages when people forget to cc you, and I waned to make sure you
saw his message. The best plan is generally to use the list for all
communications, because others in the user community might have more
information for you. Many people on the list don't see e-mails about OOo
that go to their private e-mails, they get lost in the filters. I'm
posting this back to the list, too, so chances are Richard will see it
there.
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Welcome to OOo!
Nate Jen SMITH wrote:
A look at your newsletter would be awesome. Give me an idea of how to
use it and what it can do. Thanks for your help on this!!! I am going
to go ahead and download the applications and get started on learning
how to use it. I'm excited that this is free and that it is as good if
not better than office. I hate putting out so much money for something
that shouldn't cost THAT much. Thanks again!
God Bless,
Jennifer
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Barbara Duprey <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Sent:* Monday, August 04, 2008 10:35 AM
*Subject:* Re: [users] newsletters
Forwarding to unsubscribed OP....
Richard Detwiler wrote:
> Barbara Duprey wrote:
>> Nate Jen SMITH wrote:
>>> I had another gentleman email and say that it could do it but it
>>> doesn't have the layout tools like Publisher (microsoft
office) has.
>>> But I'm going to go ahead and give it a try. Thank you!
>>>
>>> God Bless,
>>> Jennifer
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: James
>>> Knott<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
>>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[email protected]>> ;
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Sent:
Wednesday, July
>>> 30, 2008 4:24 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [users] newsletters
>>>
>>>
>>> Nate Jen SMITH wrote:
>>> > Does Openoffice have a tool for making newsletters?
>>> > Yes, the word processor, called "Writer" can do that. Do
>>> you have any specific requirements you're looking for?
>> The help topics most likely to be of interest to you for a
newsletter
>> deal with page formats, sections, and frames. Among them, they
give
>> you a great deal of control over what goes where in the output.
You
>> may also be interested in Fontwork, and in the Draw application
>> within OOo, for more graphics capabilities. Good luck, and
come back
>> to the list with questions any time!
>
> Jennifer,
>
> For what it's worth, I'm the editor of a newsletter for our local
> orienteering club. I've been using OpenOffice Writer for the
> newsletter, for something like 4 years now, and find that it
meets my
> needs very well. The page layout of our newsletter is not extremely
> simple, so it can handle things beyond real basic stuff.
>
> I have to say, though, that I have no experience with a page-layout
> application like Publisher or Scribus. So I can't say whether
Writer
> is the best tool for the job I'm doing or not -- only that it
works,
> and I'm familiar with Writer so I don't need to learn something
> totally new. I did make a (somewhat feeble) attempt to learn
Scribus,
> but didn't meet with any immediate success and didn't persevere,
> deciding to stick to Writer.
>
> The Help topics that Barbara mentions are all very good ones. I use
> all of those in doing the page layout for the newsletter that I
do. I
> would add to that list: styles (page styles and paragraph
styles, in
> particular). I use those extensively.
>
> For what I do, I haven't used Fontwork nor the Draw application
that
> Barbara mentioned; not to say these wouldn't be useful to you, just
> that I haven't needed them.
>
> If you have any specific questions, please don't hesitate to reply
> back to the list (or to me directly, for that matter), and I'll be
> glad to help as much as I can. Or if you'd like to see an
example of
> our newsletter, I'd be glad to send that along.
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