Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft MigratIon Guide

The term "Migration Guide" seems to be used around the project to
refer to two types of documents. One is more a marketing document
providing guidance for people and companies considering changing from
Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. The other is more of a user guide
intended to help people who have been using MSO and need to learn how
to use LO. The latter is the guide that is mentioned in the Docs wiki.
It probably needs a different name to distinguish it from the
marketing document. It is, in a way, a followup to the marketing
document, but aimed very much at people actually using LO. They often
think "Oh, I can't do X with LO" when in fact they can but they
haven't discovered the different ways that LO does some things and the
different terminology used in a few places.

Back in OpenOffice 2.x days, we had such a document. Its contents list
could be improved upon, but the general concept I think is an
important one to help people make the transition. IMO it needs to be
written by someone or several people who are familiar with current or
recent versions of MSO from a user's point of view, the terminology
used, and the placement of menus and toolbars for doing common tasks.

The OOo 2.0 document is here:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Migration_Guide

I have not looked at the book Fabian mentions (and my French isn't
very good), but I notice it is also from OOoAuthors.

--Jean



On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Charles-H. Schulz
<charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Italo already answered on the documentation list (I believe).
> In order to understand the context a bit better, it's perhaps useful to
> realize that such a migration guide fits into the context of our
> professional certification project. At this stage we do not really work
> on such a migration guide, however we will at some point and if there's
> enough interest now, some blueprint might be possible. If you guys are
> IT professionals and have already migrated customers to LibreOffice or
> earlier to OpenOffice.org, please let Italo know about it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Charles.
>
> Le Wed, 8 Jan 2014 07:49:57 -0600,
> Andrew Brandt <andrew@allstar-computer.com> a écrit :
>
> > I'd also be interested in working on this guide.
> > On Jan 7, 2014 11:48 PM, "David Virden"
> > <thetechnicaldeconfusator@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I would like to work on this guide and I was told someone on
> > > this list else was interested, as well. If so, would you like some
> > > assistance?
> > >
> > > David
> > >
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