Hi :) The courses seem to be entirely about MS products and their own languages and stuff like silverlight. They even seem to expect you to use Internet Explorer.
There are Open Source and other alternatives to almost everything they want to teach you. Do you really need to engage with those people and go back into the MS lock-in? Regards from Tom :) On 18 April 2014 06:43, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[email protected]> wrote: > First, if you opt to go this route, be prepared to spend the money to buy > the software. > > > > On 04/17/2014 11:14 AM, Jeffrey Deutsch wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm thinking of applying for an online tutoring position at Tutor.com. >> However, they require that tutors (and applicants, for the mock tutoring >> session) have Microsoft Word (2007 or later) itself -- they specifically >> say that OpenOffice is not acceptable. I'd rather not spend $110 just to >> get MS Word (or $140 for MS Office, or $10/month or $100/year to rent MS >> Office) for this specific job, when OpenOffice/LibreOffice has worked just >> fine for me for the past decade. >> >> Does anyone here have any relevant experience (eg, does Tutor.com in >> practice allow OpenOffice/LibreOffice, is it absolutely necessary to get >> MS >> Word, do you know of similar online tutoring services that allow >> OpenOffice/LibreOffice, etc)? >> > > So you are wondering if anyone knows why they request this? Likely not > here, but, I can say that even between different versions of MSO you may > have different behavior and rendering of documents. If they provide macros, > they will not likely work in AOO or LO correctly. If they have complicated > documents, that could be a problem in slight things. I notice, for example, > slight differences in rendering between LO/AOO and MSO with respect to > tables and their exact size on the page. > > You can always take the position, and, when you have a problematic > document, drop the money. > > > >> Thank you in advance! >> >> Jeff Deutsch >> Speaker & Life Coach >> A SPLINT - ASPies LInking with NTs >> http://www.asplint.com >> >> "Listen to the universe while it whispers before it has to shout." >> Marion Grobb Finkelstein, Communication Catalyst -- >> http://www.MarionSpeaks.com >> >> > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
