off_world_beings wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know a good rich text editor that you can
>>> download for free for Windows?
>>>
>> For programming, or word processing? What kinds of
>> features are you looking for?
>>
>>
>
> I need MS word documents from students to open, and to ba able to
> edit them, and to be able to do formatting. I have MS Office but I
> lost the disk, and I really don't want to buy it again, since as soon
> as I can switch all my software over to my new Mac, I will switch
> from using windows on the mac to leopard. In the meantime, that will
> cost me more than I feel like paying after spending 3,000 on the
> macbook pro (which is working fine now by the way)
>
> Otherwise I just use InDesign for everything like that, but having
> students that only have Word causes issues, because I cannot easily
> edit, and also many of my old files that I use very semester but with
> some tweaking here and there, only come up in a read only MS viewer
> right now.
>
> I know I have MS Office somewhere but cannot find the disk. I may
> need to buy it anyway, since some students occasionally send stuff in
> powerpoint. Seems like a waste to spend $200 when I can spend about
> $700 to switch everything to the mac side.
>
> What is the mac version of word and powerpoint anyways? Do you have
> to buy it separate from Microsoft? Anyone know?
>
> OffWorld
Sounds like the best temporary solution is Open Office. I think you can
also open PowerPoint presentations in it too.
