Issue 5549 - Advertise to MS Office users
Summary: Advertise to MS Office users
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: marketing
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: www (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P5 (lowest) Trivial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: josh
QA Contact: issues@marketing
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Reported: 2002-06-04 17:00 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2003-03-11 18:16 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Unknown 2002-06-04 17:00:48 UTC 
I love OO but have to save as a word doc all the time because everyone else 
still uses MS Office.  It is becoming difficult to tell eveyone to install 
OO.  I would love it if there was a way to have a popup message when opening a 
word doc file format that was created with OO.  The pop message box could say 
that "This file was created using OpenOffice.org.  However word is not able to 
display all the features used to create this document.  It is recomened that 
you install OpenOffice and request this docuement in a swx format"  That way I 
don't have to keep reminding people about OO.  They would be reminded 
everytime they open a OO document I created.  Just something to add to the 
wish list.  (Of course I could just type that at the start of all my documents 
but popup messages are so much more cool)

Thank you for your time.  Sorry if this is not possible.
Comment 1 josh 2002-06-04 17:18:01 UTC 
Brett,

It's a nice idea.  However, I'm pretty certain that it would make us more enemies than 
friends.  A simpler thing that you could do would be to put, in small italic type in the footer 
of appropriate documents, "This document created with OpenOffice.org 1.0."    You could 
even set this up as a template, so that all of your documents have it.

I really think that demonstrating to other users how many people use OpenOffice.org will 
encourage them to try it more than an obtrusive pop-up.  

Please keep thinking of ideas to promote OpenOffice.org.  It would be good, though, if 
you submitted ideas like this one to the Discuss or Dev@Marketing lists first for 
discussion before filing an IZ; Issues are really for things which don't need discussion.

-Josh Berkus
 Marketing Lead Volunteer
Comment 2 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 18:09:07 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate
issues. Please see this posting for details. First step in IssueZilla is
unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 3 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 18:16:55 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details.