[us-marketing] took her hours with MSO, took me minutes with LibreOffice - she was impressed.

Had someone over yesterday.  She spent hours and hours, she said with 
MSO, trying to get a spreadsheet made for a daily/weekly patient/client 
log that was better than the one they currently had to use.

She saw how quickly I did the work in Calc and told me that every time 
she tried to do the same with MSO, she could not get it to work 
properly, since Excel insisted it be two page wide.

She was amazed how easy it is to do the work in Calc, over Excel.  I did 
not have the heart to tell her that I did it in Writer instead due to 
the combination of text and tables.  It would have been worse in Word if 
she tried that.

So I think I will be giving her a DVD soon so she can dump MSO for 
something better.  Then hopefully her high school kids would pass it 
around to their friends, etc., etc..

I just did the work for her and showed her how easy it was to use 
LibreOffice.  She did not have much time for me to go through the whole 
package, since she had to go to her 2nd job she does 2 evenings a week.  
So as soon as I can get her to sit down with me, I will show her how 
"She too can have the best and easiest office suite on the market 
today.  Plus it is free."  My substitute aide worker asked me "What is 
the Catch".  I said we are all volunteers wanting to develop, market, 
and support the best package we can have that does not cost the user 
anything to buy.  She was impressed that there was a company out there 
that was like that.  She was not a "computer person" and did not know 
what Linux was when I told her I use Linux instead of Windows.

So, two good impressions for the software and "company" in two days.
Thanks to the people who made it that way.  Thanks Guys and Gals.

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