[Nottingham] Hanson Chinese Meeting Update

[Roger Light]

Hi,

> What's left is to get together the demonstrations (I need to spend =
some=20
> time with OpenOffice but any contributions of tutorial level on the =
word=20
>processor and spreadsheet would be appreciated) and sort out some more=20
>publicity...

I actually used OO last week for the first time really, so don't expect =
any useful tutorials from me, but the thing that really impressed me was =
the formula editor - it is a real dream to use. The MS version is just =
pointy clicky but the OO editor is text command based and easy to pick up =
so even though you have to use the pointy clicky part at first, you get =
much faster as time goes on.

I appreciate that a formula editor isn't the most used feature for many =
people but for those that do use one the OO version is a god send.

A simple example (as I know you're all dying to see :)

I_{PD} =3D I_{DC} + I_{AC} cdot sin(2 %pi cdot f_{i} cdot t + %phi)

That's the other beauty of course - you could paste that into OO and see =
my equation. You couldn't do that easily with Word. Woo.

Anyway, I'm rambling.

Cheers,

Roger