[ale] Transition to OpenOffice / Dumb salespeople rant!!! OT

[James P. Kinney III]

tools->options->Load/Save->General. Select "Auto Save every" set it for
5 minutes and uncheck "Prompt to save". 

There are only a few places where OO is less than satisfactory. Search
and replace using regular expressions just doesn't work right now. It
was a licensing issue going Open Source.

Accessing ODBC databases is seriously sweet!. So with that, an office
can literally create data entry screens for inputting customer (or
whatever) data into a PostgreSQL database and have a series of pretty
forms to do it with. Plus you can generate auto reports. And....  :)

If it is set up to use the M$ .doc and .xls stuff by default, the only
nasty is it warns about "saving in other formats may cause data loss".
That tends to really upset people. A bit of training on how to save as
for sending to others will avoid that.

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 15:11, Fulton Green wrote:
> So does OO's word proc (and/or other components) do auto-saves?
> 
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:03:22PM -0500, Keith Morris wrote:
> > sorry, I just had to drop a quick note to blow off some steam.  I have 
> > been pushing to move our company as open source as possible and have 
> > been fairly successful.  Finally I convinced the boss to "beta test" 
> > OpenOffice on some of our sales peoples machines (I have already 
> > successfully moved all of the production machines to OO). So yesterday 
> > one of our project managers installed OO on his and a sales persons 
> > machine.  I hadn't even gotten a chance to go setup their options for them.
> > 
> > Well, I get a call earlier from one of the sales people saying... "I was 
> > working on a document with 'that open office' that you have been 
> > tracking...I had been working on it for about 2 hours...went to 
> > lunch...came back and made some more changes then selected some text and 
> > it crashed...it said it would try to recover the document, but it failed 
> > and I lost everything.  So I'm dumping that thing and going back to Word 
> > because I can't afford for that to happen."
> > 
> > To this I asked if he was saving the document all along and he said "No, 
> >    I probably should have been, but I'm still dumping it."
> 
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