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 ...
----
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
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss