this comes with office student edition 2013 pre-installed: http://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_Transformer_Book_T100TA/
In any case, Windows 7 and windows 8.1 (not windows 8) will be eligible for a free upgrade to windows 10. If you are short in disk space, buy ad external hard disk for 50 bucks (toshiba...), good also to save your important files twice. On 1 February 2015 at 15:45, Wiebe van der Worp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi lalitadatta > > What Tom writes below are very good points. I can understand that it may be > a bit too much detail but it is valuable information for the school > involved. It really puzzles me why schools teach concepts based on MS with a > lock in policy while there is so much better software available for free as > in freedom and price, running on almost every operating system and being > implemented on large scale in a professional environment. In short: Software > you want students to work with. > > In my opinion you would do the school, the parents and not at least the > students a favour by handing over this mail to the school/teacher involved. > > Having said that, my daughter is using OpenOffice and LibreOffice for 9 > years now. She is starting with her master and never used MS Office - > despite all efforts of the schools and universities to force her into MS > Office - for example by mandating MS Word style sheets for a thesis. > > The school/teacher is welcome on this list or personal if questions arise > and I really hope you hand this over though it does not answer your question > directly. > > Concerning hardware in addition to what is said by others: Don't expect > miracles from the T100 but it should be able to do the job. Lack of internal > memory will force your daughter in time to move larger files to a usb-disk > or stick - i.e. movies in paticular. There are also models with more memory, > 64GB. You may want to (let someone) remove all unneeded pre-installed > software you get for "free" since this will free memory and increases > performance. > > Best regards, Wiebe > > > On 29-01-15 16:18, Tom Davies wrote: >> >> Hi :) >> Sorry to say that Access is not compatible with almost any other >> database program. Even down to the sql language under the surface of >> the Queries it is different from all the rest. >> >> Access is also very restricted in what it can do and how it can be >> used - for example it only supports single user input at a time rather >> than being able to handle multiple users. Some of it's restrictions >> can be by-passed if you dig deep enough but it's probably better to >> use something that is designed to be "the right tool for the job" >> rather than to twist Access outside of it's comfort-zone. If she >> learns how to use Access that way then she will be amazed how easy it >> is to use any of the others later in life. >> >> However it is still good to learn. There are key concepts and >> generalities that are the same or very similar. Those concepts are >> often difficult for people to grasp. It's possibly easier to >> understand some of it if you have watched "The Matrix". >> >> >> The main problem would be with trying to use any example files she is >> given or that she builds on Access. >> >> It might be possible for her to use Base to do some of her exercises >> but most of it will take some initiative to adapt what they ask for in >> order to fit. >> >> For example Base is best when used with an external back-end but for >> the exercises she will probably be better off using the internal >> back-end. Anything teaching about Access probably wont mention >> back-end vs front-end at all - which is one reason why it might be >> handy to have watched "The Matrix" (but only to get the rough idea of >> what it's about rather than needing to watch toooo closely - mostly >> the bit about the cat and the spoon). >> >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> On 29 January 2015 at 13:45, lalitadatta <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> My daughter's in need of Microsoft access for her homework - she's >>> studying >>> computer >>> technology at high school, and she needs Access for coding. Anyone knows >>> if >>> liber office should do the job? >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/compatibility-with-Microsoft-Access-tp4138053.html >>> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> -- >>> 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 -- 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
