On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:43 PM, kwalsh2004 wrote: > Hello - > > ... 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.
Let's start at the beginning. I assumed that since you were using Writer you wanted to teach writing, grammar, spelling, etc. What are you trying to teach where a lack of Clip Art or Borders impedes learning? > 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). There are a number of 'compatible' formats between Microsoft and OO. However, I would suggest RTF as your first choice and HTML as a viable second choice for saving documents that are going to travel back and forth between editors as well as between Operating Systems such as Mac, Linux, Windows, etc. RTF and HTML are both essentially public formats whose specifications are readily available and well understood by developers. Microsoft native formats (doc and docx) are proprietary and which various vendors attempt to provide compatibility Microsoft doesn't make it easy. Captain Nice [email protected] "I love my computer, because my friends live in it!" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
