Tim: >> Yet, my experience of Office gives me exactly the opposite response. ToddAndMargo: > I think it has to do with what you know and what > your capacity for learning is. Ever have a > secretary jump up in your face and tell "I DON'T > WANT TO LEARN ANYTHING NEW!!" after her boss > tells you to install new software? No, but I understand the sentiment. Many years ago I had to help someone use Office. They'd gone on a course for it, and also had to do homework. Their home version was different from the school's version, and they couldn't transfer the knowledge. I had to delve through all the badly organised menus trying to find the functions they needed, then work out how they were going to apply to the data on the page. Nothing was intuitive. It's all about learning its foibles. It doesn't help when the knowledge is only presented as recipes. Rather than a task of "format the page in landscape, title the page and add a table with the items and prices listed below in a coherent manner" they're given a list of "from the so-and-so menu pick this, then put 8 and 3 into the first two boxes" etc. The moment MS rearranges the menus, which they continually do, they're lost. > Having used and supported multiple word processors, > I do have to say that LO is just awkward. Few complicated applications are straight-forward, but I've always found Office to be far worse. Fortunately, I don't use most of the fancy functions, and likewise for most people. It's a glorified typewriter with editing and storage. Though, in the past, I have used some of the more useful automation features, like generating tables of contents and indexes. And I have played with merging and splitting table cells. Over the last several years, I mostly use it to type up chord charts for guitarists who can't read musical scores. That's little more than heading, sub-heading, body text, and then adjust the styling to fill the page as best possible, with a few text boxes for playing hints. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.42.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 7 14:49:57 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
