Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO

Hi :)
The in-built help is a bit rubbish and out-dated but the official documentation is fairly 
excellent.  
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
The guides on the official page are the same as the ones on the wiki but the wiki has more guides 
and links to 3rd party documentation too.  

The official website only has the guides for 3.3.x branch but the wiki has a load of things that 
have only recently been added for the 3.4.x branch.  

The problem with the in-built help is that 2 teams each thought it was the other team's job to 
update.  The docs team doesn't seem to have permissions or access to the in-built help but even if 
they did then they are a tiny group and are a bit swamped so they have focused on the guides for 
now.  Anyone that wants to join the docs team is very welcome!
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Fri, 20/4/12, Pertti Rönnberg <ptjr@elisanet.fi> wrote:

From: Pertti Rönnberg <ptjr@elisanet.fi>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 20 April, 2012, 14:54

On 20.4.2012 11:00, MiguelAngel wrote:
> One for you.
>
> Much users even don't read the program's help.
> A light read over all the help, shows very well what the program can do and how, many samples 
> there, and also can solve the majority of the cuestions on daily use.
> To drive a car is needed a license, in other words known the rules. Nobody was born learned.
>
> Miguel Ángel.

Miguel,
May I correct you, you do not need a license for driving a car! When my son was 10 he had no 
license but I let him test driving my car!
But if you do not know the features of it, e.g. how to handle the gears, then you may study the 
Instruction Book, the User's Manual or whatever it is called.

Just to avoid misunderstanding:  I am talking about LibreOffice and it's  LibreOffice Help -- not 
OpenOffice's.
When I was new to LibO(-Base) I spent hours on trying to learn the logic of LibreOffice Help.
Try your self:
Let us say that you need to create a form (Base) in Design View based on a query , because you need 
fields from two tables in one of which you have a 'birthday' field that you want to be calculated 
as 'age' and want that age field visible on the form.
You know how to do in MSAccess but not in LibO-Base.
Start by pushing the LibreOffice Help button (lifebuoy)
Good luck!
Pertti Rönnberg

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