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mdlbearSpent two-and-a-half hours on the phone yesterday walking my Mom through downloading and installing Openoffice so she could use it to make business cards. Turns out OOo doesn't make it anywhere near as easy as they should. You get a plain zip file instead of a self-extracting archive, so you have to drop it into a new folder because moronic WinZip extracts into the current folder by default. Blarf. Things were vastly complicated by the fact that Mom's vocabulary isn't up to describing the difference between an application's window, an open folder, and an icon! "Tell me what you see..."
Never did get her going with the cards, in part because you have to use the "labels" menu item instead of "business cards", which use some stupid template system that (as far as I can tell) pulls information from the registration form nobody bothers filling in. Also, the app that edits labels is far from intuitive. I'll put up a couple of samples on the web, from the ones I did for the family, and let her edit them.
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In other miseries, my cold is worse -- post-nasal drip leading to a cough and working on a sore throat. Don't dare sing. (OK, so it's an excuse not to practice. It's still an excuse I'd rather not have.)
Never did get her going with the cards, in part because you have to use the "labels" menu item instead of "business cards", which use some stupid template system that (as far as I can tell) pulls information from the registration form nobody bothers filling in. Also, the app that edits labels is far from intuitive. I'll put up a couple of samples on the web, from the ones I did for the family, and let her edit them.
I'm used to "
apt-get install openoffice.org". And before some helpful...person... tries to tell me that "on a Mac it just works", let me refer you to the section in the Firefox release notes where it describes the little icon dance that happens if you just try to start it in the obvious way from a download.In other miseries, my cold is worse -- post-nasal drip leading to a cough and working on a sore throat. Don't dare sing. (OK, so it's an excuse not to practice. It's still an excuse I'd rather not have.)
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