Re: [OOo-Hebrew] Identifying OO users

Hi Marcelo,
I suggest that you just send the document in both formats. People who use 
OOo will pick up on it. To the clueless who ask what the .sxw/odt thingy 
is, you can give some lame explanation and tell them not to worry about it 
or to delete it.

  - yba


On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Marcelo Juanico wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:04:39 +0200
> From: Marcelo Juanico <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [OOo-Hebrew] Identifying OO users
> 
> We are a small consulting firm.
> 
> We exchange a lot of documents with our clients and other people.
> 
> As I assume that most people use MS-Office, I follow the (ridiculous) procedure:
>  *  I created a document with OO.
>  *  I save it in MS-Office format in order to send it to somebody else
>  *  The he works on the document, returns it to me in the same MS-Office format, and I open
>     it again with OO
> 
> The other day I commented the issue with a client and he said: -But we also use OO !
> Thus, the procedure was even more ridiculous: both the client and me were using OO, but we
> interchanged documents in MS-Office format !
> 
> THE PROBLEM:
> I do not know who is using OO, and other people do not know that I am using OO.
> 
> THE SOLUTION:
> I coud add a small footnote to all my documents saying something like:
> "This document was created with OpenOffice - www.openoffice.org"
> 
> If all (most ?) OO users do the same, we will easily recognize other OO users and this will
> avoid the ridiculous going and coming from MS-Office format.
> We will be free of the MS-Office format !
> 
> Besides, the non-OO users will know that there exist people using this rare software (some of
> them don't even know that OO exists, as I didn't till some months ago). I could also add the
> suggested phrase to our website.
> 
> MY QUESTION
> Is there an already made standard phrase for this purpose ?
> 
> Marcelo
> 
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