Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

On 4 February 2011 09:36, Ken Springer <snowshed@dishmail.net> wrote:
> Good morning, Gordon,
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbplinux@gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > But that applies to ALL applications, whether FOSS or proprietary. In my
> > personal experience in large corporations, 75% of MS Office users only use
> > 25% (or less) of the functionality...
>
>
> I absolutely agree with your comment about MS Office users.  But in my
> experience, I would say your observation of "75% of MS Office users only use
> 25% (or less) of the functionality..." might be a bit high.  :-)

Which part is high -- the percentage of users or the percentage of the
available functions?

In my experience, I'd say at least 90% of the users use maybe 10% of
the functions. When teaching an introductory course to Windoze, I
encourage beginners to use WordPad. The vast majority of people don't
need anything more.

Of course, users are frequently unaware of available functions. That,
of course, is what led M$ to eliminate the menu structure and
introduce that @*&@#$&* ribbon. (Personally, I think it was the
'personalised menus' that were more at fault -- what users didn't use
didn't appear -- so how were users supposed to find existing
functions?)


-- 
T. R. Valentine
Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care.
'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food
and clothes.' -- Erasmus

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