[Nottingham] Evangelism

[David Aldred]

On Monday 27 June 2005 10:08, Cam wrote:
> David Aldred wrote:
> > How have you found OOo2.0?   I tried a beta not too long ago, and found
> > the database prone to crashes, and the mailmerge functionality still a
> > long way from the main competition: I use both quite a lot (specifically
> > for label production: I haven't found any really efficient way of
> > producing a catalogue under OOo from a database).
>
> Make sure you get the latest builds, as a lot of fixes have gone in. I
> found the early beta 2 releases almost unusable, and now I'm managing
> with them.
>
> It does seem that the features around the periphery (in my case,
> documents with OLE, recording changes, mergeing changes) have been
> broken then improved.

Could be the case here - I'll have a look sometime soon....

>
> BTW if you report problems to the OOo team they do give them attention
> and fix them. I'm staggered by people in the business that will try the
> package then grumble and drop it, without so much as submitting a bug...

I'm quite into reporting bugs - it's amazing how much notice is taken of them, 
compared with the closed-source world (which you would have thought would 
have profit to make out of taking notice...)!

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David Aldred