On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:10 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> >
> > Let's not forget the time and expense of training staff who are proficient
> > with M$ Office to use OO instead. I made that mistake once. Not a trivial
> > endeavor.
> >
> > > Craig
> 
> You know what's funny, is it is totally true and absolutely wrong at the same 
> time. I took several people who are very proficient with the computer and 
> some who were not. 
> 
> I installed OO on some and MS Office on others. Some of the people I installed 
> OO on I didn't say a word to. I told everyone MS Office was installed and the 
> icon on the desktop was how to get into Word.
> 
> A few of the OO people I told were using OO.
> The only people who had a problem were the ones I told were using OO instead 
> of Office. It's like a brain block, OK, this isn't office, let's call nathan 
> and find out how to save this document ...
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The issue of the saved 'format' is the issue that you are glossing over.
Undoubtedly, you had them saving as 'doc' / 'xls' / 'pps' documents.

The format of saved documents IS the next battleground.

Craig

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