[ui-dev] Update suggestion/s

[John Tate]

Tate & Sons, a whitebox builder, used to push (suggest to our customers that they consider using) WordPerfect for three reasons: 1    Reveal Codes. 2    Very good printed user reference manual, 3    No autocomplete.   We are not passionatly anti MicroSoft, but we are not ardent fans either. What we would very much like to suggest to our customers (and to use ourselves) is Open Officw with: A    Reveal codes. B    Continued user interface and file format compatibility with MS. C    If it has autocomplete make it easy to turn off/on and make off the default. D    Convince some good author to publish a printed Open Office user reference manual similar to/as complete as the one for WordPerfect 6 for DOS.  If Open Office has THRt and/or SHRt codes, make sure to include info on: a    What they are for. b    When/why they are created. c    How to get rid of them. [The WordPerfect manual is defficient in saying nothing about them.  I can't think of any other deficiencies at the moment.] E    Port the new Open Office to U3 so that it can be run from a flash drive on any box without installation and without leaving any footprint in the registery (or anywhere else) on the host box.   When implemented this would make Open Office the perfect word processor.  We would like the rest of the suite:: knock offs of : Excell, PowerPoint, Access, Frontpage, etc  ported to U3 too.   How soon might it be available for us to use?   We would like some CDs, for ourselves and to give out to those who will very much appreciate them.   By the way, I am also treasurer for www.kegs.org.  Komputer Enthusiasts of Greater Seattle.   (I didn't participate in creating the name.)   John Tate TATE & SONS Box 145 Bellevue WA 98009 425-747-1250