Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

On 05/13/2014 11:25 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> On 05/13/2014 10:16 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > I think it is helping because it helps us understand what kind of 
> > level of expertise we can expect from certain posters.  So when i try 
> > to answer questions about Calc, or Base there are clearly limits on 
> > how much i understand or have stumbled through myself.
>
> That was part of my thought process in asking the question. In the 
> past, for example, we have discussed the relative merits of paragraph 
> styles. Some of us love them; some of us hate them. My (totally 
> unscientific) guess is that styles lovers will tend to be primarily 
> Writer users and styles haters will tend to be primarily Calc users 
> (or Base, but it seems that *nobody* primarily uses Base).
     Actually, no one has yet to respond that primarily uses Base. You 
would probably say that I don't either considering the amount of time 
that I use Writer. Yet, my primary use of LibreOffice is writing what 
should become the future Base Guide. I am also experimenting with Base 
to see all of the things that it can do.
     Then there are the personal uses I have for Base. The purpose of a 
database is to store data and then access or manipulate the date to 
obtain information that is needed. Just  some of the databases that I 
use includes Bible study, schedules, grocery lists, medical tests, 
financial (income and expenses), calories consumed (amount by food type, 
record of the over a period of time), and utility consumption including 
statistics about it. the queries in these databases can reveal quite a 
bit of information.

--Dan


> If I know that a user is a 95% Calc user, then it will do me little 
> good to try to convince them to set up a bunch of Writer paragraph 
> styles. They don't have time for that, just like I don't have time to 
> learn the power moves of Calc--I just don't use it enough to justify 
> that type of investment.
>
> So, as we discuss various topics, it will helpful (at least for me) to 
> know that awe for the power of Writer may not be shared by one who 
> emphasizes Calc.
>
> It also underscores for me the immensity of our office suite. To make 
> it do wonderful things, we must learn it, but it's like trying to 
> comprehend the universe. I doubt that any single human being truly 
> understands it, which is why a list like this is so helpful 
> (aspergers, OCD and all).
>
> Virgil


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