Virgil, There are tasks which operate differently because of a divergence of philosophies between MS and the LO developers.
But, there are a number of functions which operate a lot like (sometimes exactly like) MS Word. Ex. Format >Change Case (exactly the same in MS Word and LO) while Insert > Symbols (Word) and Insert > Special Characters (LO) are very similar. What may help newbies is to have a cheat sheet for quick tasks which are similar (as noted above) and then augment that with more of a FAQ for the most frequently used tasks for ones as you described where they deviate quite a bit from one another. This could help newbies get up to speed a lot faster as most users probably apply 25-30 tasks in a wordprocessing program regularly. This cheat sheet coupled with a FAQ could enable them to be functional LO users while they become, over time, more acquainted with the less common tasks. Charles. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
