Hello Kim, I am not affiliated with Open Office, I am just a user like you.
> I found it to lacking in all the > things that would make it easier for these younger kids to learn the > application, like Clip art, page borders, etc. > There are Open Office clip art packages available, and an Open Office spinoff called go-oo that contains more clip art. But tell me, what is missing about the page borders? > That aside, I am writing to tell you of my latest issue. I usually use MS > Word at home to write up my lesson plans, but last week, I updated the > page in Open Office Writer and saved it in the same format (MS Word), not OO > Writer. When I tried to open it today, in MS Word (my home computer) - none > of the text in my table is there - 99% of it has dissappeared! The onlything > left was my headers and 29 blank pages (it was only one page when I saved > it). > If you can send the document to me in private mail I can take a look at it. In which version of Open Office was the document made? > I had to download Open Office on my home computer, where I was able to open > the Word document in Writer. When I copied the table into a new Word > document, it was all messed up - the rows and columns were not the size they > appeared in Writer (or the original Word document), so I spent about 30-45 > minutes to fix one of my lesson plans so that it look like I had it > originally. I have 4 total to fix. There was a one-page plan for each week > (Jan. 25th and Feb1st), and each had 3 columns (one for the class period > times, and one for each day that I teach: Tuesday and Thursday and the other > was Wednesday and Friday), and one school had 10 rows and the other had 11. > Now I have to fix the other two, and I don't really have 3-4 hours to waste > fixing this. It's been a struggle with the kids, but I have learned my > lesson - I will never use Open Office for any of my personal and > professional documents. > The different table layouts may have been due to different default paper sizes or printer drivers installed in the different machines. This is a Microsoft Office feature (they don't consider it a bug) by the way, not an Open Office issue. You would be far better using the ODT (default) file format, and sharing the documents as PDFs. Writer can export to PDF, in fact there is a toolbar item for just that! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
