Jason Kraus wrote:
Err, my mom teaches the class. Currently they want to move to office 2003 which isn't neccesarily a bad thing, but the book they want her to use is extremely bad from what I here.
That sounds like the administration would be very upset if she taught OpenOffice, no?
In this instance, evangelizing OpenOffice is the wrong thing to do. The course your mom is teaching is specifically about Microsoft Office.
The correct solution would likely be to have her offer to also teach a course about OpenOffice. The only thing I will caution you about is that OpenOffice has some glaring holes. So, you need to know your audience.
For example, the lack of a stats/histogram package that works is a *HUGE* hole in the spreadsheet program. If you tried evangelizing OpenOffice to a bunch of educators who are looking to make gradebooks, they would be very upset and complain that Microsoft Office is the better tool (and they would be correct).
I don't know about textbooks for Microsoft Office, but there are certainly more than a few Office tutorials online. Students who would want to print them could do so at Kinko's; others can just use them online.
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