Schools get around the 'I don't have Office' by supplying computer labs chock full of Office.
Sucky, but true. J --- Sent from the road... -----Original Message----- From: sgrover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, Jun 28, 2007 5:35 pm Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Word Documents To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], CLUG General <[email protected]>Reply-To: CLUG General <[email protected]> Thanks for the plug Mitchell. :) Jesse: I just re-read what I wrote again, and think the last couple of paragraphs, and the one near the beginning starting with "A few years back, the state of Massachusetts..." might be applicable to your goal. That article wasn't really written with the same goal you have, so covers other topics than what you need. But Massachusetts reasons for moving from the proprietary format are bang on. And the issue of who controls your data - you, or the vendor of the file format. One would think that a simple argument of "I do not OWN MS Word, so cannot comply with your request to use the Word file format. However, I can produce and ODF based file, or a PDF." should do the trick. Afterall, how can a professor "demand" what you do with your computer system. I just did a google search for "reasons not to use ms word", but that wasn't very helpful... So let us know what you find. Shawn Jesse Kline wrote: > Not sure entirely how relevant this is, but try: > > http://grover.open2space.com/node/154 That's an interesting article. Nice work Shawn! However, my issue is that I've had a couple professors that require submissions in Word documents. This pisses me off because it is a proprietary format and because I don't use MS Office, so there's no guarantee that my formatting will convert correctly. This can be fairly critical when I'm required to submit a paper of a certain length and in a certain style. I'm looking for some good articles to throw at them in the hopes of changing this policy. Thank you, Jesse _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
