Elia DaRos wrote:
If the user is familiar
with the computer they are using, the text would be enough to help them
figure out what to do anyway.
Agreed.
I think part of the problem has been the increasing number of people
who are buying (or being given) computers with OOo pre-installed, and
a lot of those people are not familiar with their computer or the
operating system on it.
Not that I am suggesting we attempt to teach them how to use their
computer! But some of the chapters in the current books were donated
by people who had written training material for very inexperienced
users, and we didn't modify that material very much (due to being too
busy trying to put together a full book somehow).
It's certainly well past time to delete some of the detail from that
early material... not that anyone really has any more time to do that
than we did before -- trying to keep up with changes and additional
features in OOo seems to be more than a full-time job for those few of
us that are doing it.
I think we should make sure that somewhere early on in each book,
there is a notice saying something like "this book assumes you are
familiar with using your computer, and know how to open and save
files....(etc)." Most user guides have something like that. Then we
just concentrate on how to use OOo.
--Jean
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