Yep. And OOo allows a conversion to MS Word as well. So there ARE arguments for the Prof's to use to get their way. How realistic these are is open to discussion though. Afterall, the formatting may not be right after a conversion to MS Word, and a student might actually have a life (aka kids, work, other responsibilities.) that prevent them from getting into the school to use their equipment.
The argument can go in many directions.. :) Shawn Jon wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
