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Subject: OO helpfile
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:23:54 +0800
To: Florian Effenberger <flo...@openoffice.org>
G'day Florian,
Sorry to bother you, and probably not your area of interest, but
frustration drove me to it.
I have been trying to get to grips with Base, and had to rely on the
helpfile to get me through it. As a total beginner parts of it was
confusing and other parts pointed me in totally the wrong direction. My
biggest frustration related to Queries.
In the helpfile it describes the syntax for entering the conditions. ie
If searching for text, us ' (single quotes) to indicate text. After many
hours trying unsuccessfully to get this to work (as it was the only
method described in the helpfile), I finally found that this only
applies if you do it in design mode. I'm sure the majority of first time
users like myself would feel that using the wizard would be the easier
method initially. In the helpfile there is no mention that, when using
the wizard the single quotes are not required, and infact prevent the
query from operating.
Now that I am aware, I know what to do, but I would like to prevent many
others (based on the uptake of OO) putting themselves through the same
frustration.
I implore you to try and get the helpfile ammended to indicate such a
simple (but important) difference between the functionality of query
condition entry using the design mode, and the wizard.
Cheers for now!
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