Re: [us-marketing] Introductions

 Le 2010-10-19 23:02, Michel Gagnon a écrit :
> Hello everyone,
>
> I think I am the sole member of Québec so far. My mother tongue is 
> French and I generally work in French using French-language software, 
> but I agree with what has been said so far: a single North-American 
> list serves us much better than many regional lists.
>
> Contrary to many others, I am neither a programmer nor an IT 
> technician. I am a power user and support my colleagues at the office 
> (with outside help for difficult problems) and at home.
> I have had an interest in OpenOffice for a long time, but basically, 
> OpenOffice 1 and 2 had a major bug which made it almost non-usable for 
> me: the "space before" a paragraph appeared even when said paragraph 
> was at the top of the page.
>
> At the moment, I use both Microsoft Office 2003 and OpenOffice 3.2 and 
> I try to use either one when they are most suitable. I prefer Writer 
> for long documents with variables and complex stylesheets, but Word 
> for short documents or those that need to be typeset. I feel equally 
> at ease with Calc and Excel, but I have yet to do anything decent with 
> Impress. Often, I have to say that I must use Microsoft products 
> because that's what our customers need. If I post a Word or Excel 
> document on our company website, our clients consider it worthy; it I 
> post a Writer or Calc document, they all complain about that 
> "unreadable document". Some of our clients do not have enough computer 
> literacy to install OpenOffice, the others don't have the permissions 
> to do so; therefore it is Microsoft or PDF documents! As an engineer, 
> a good part of my work load is spent writing technical and other 
> support documents as well as presentation files that my colleagues use 
> when they train our customers.
>
> I have to say that my input time is limited. I am torn between this 
> new product (still beta), the fairly reliable OOo 3.2 (and, alas, the 
> needed Microsoft Office). I definitely have ideas about what is needed 
> to make the LibreOffice interface more user-friendly and I could 
> provide some input on French translations, but I have a limited amount 
> of time.
Merci Michel et bienvenue à l'équipe de marketing canadienne. Hence, I 
no longer blush when I talk of the Canadian Marketing Team, we are two! 
Welcome! Any donation of your time and your contributions will be most 
appreciated.

Marc Paré
Canadian Marketing Team

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Marc Paré
http://www.parEntreprise.com


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