most office personell are rather computer savy after just a little work, but I do think the setup of saving the work in any office suite should be closely controlled in this day and age. Just turning on the "auto-save" feature doesn't help without where it should go, so there are 2 points of interest here. Where to allow office people to save and if they should be allowed to carry home data if they use a thumb-drive, cd, floppy or whatever. Seems to me that in a secure data site, like a doctor/lawyer office it should go back to the server.
Point is---where do you save or allow it to be saved after turning on the auto-save feature on everyone's computer? May as well not have it turned on in an office environment as to have maybe sensitive data going soneplace the admin wouldn't ever dream of allowing it.
even in the home, where my usual usage is, I use particular directories of my own choise, not the default directories. I like to copy them to a data cd, or thumbdrive and take them with me--I don't like waiting to find them through a search of my hard drive, even Ms winders likes to bury them inside a directory or 4.
and we are making a lot to do about just a minor point--just publish this default setting "problem" somehwere that newbies can find and list other ways to use the auto-save feature---Hay! a info page?
I do have a small network (7 computers)going here at home and my wife likes me to be handy sometimes to FIX her computer once in a while. She uses Excel/word but I can't get her to change to OO/Linux. She won't allow me to even upgrade her computer to XP-let alone Linux Fedora Core-SHE SAYS SHE FINALLY GOT THE HANG OF ME Windows--yeah--right! .....steve
Sean Bruno wrote:
Wow...Have you ever taken a standard computer user through the settings
of any Office suite? They stare at you as though you are speaking a
different language.
Most users really don't care about options and get very frustrated when
stuff "just doesn't work."
As far as cost is concerned, most people don't really care that OO and
Linux are free. They get a "free" version of something with their new
PC that mostly meets their needs.
Am I underestimating the novice computer user? Am I making too big a deal out of one option setting here? If I am, I'll just drop it and make an "FAQ" on a post-it to change the auto-save setting. Since I am not seeing any opinions from the RedHat folks here, I think we are all wasting out time.
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