Hi :) I like your ideas a lot. :))) Sadly not everyone is allowed to or able to install programs on the machiens they use. It might be effortless for them on a home machine or their own laptop, if they have one, but schools and other establishments block people from using computers safely and force them to use unsafe but 'approved' systems instead. For me a classic was a public library where "Notepad" was blocked but MS Word was infected.
There have been various work-arounds, such as installing programs to a Cloud or Virtual Machine or LiveCd/Usb or portable apps; https://www.howtogeek.com/290358/what-is-a-portable-app-and-why-does-it-matter/ http://www.winpenpack.com/en/index.php https://portableapps.com/ but people using MS stuff a lot are very scared of letting people do anything useful because they think that is where malware, security attacks and big problems come from. Ironically when anyone gives any of the alternatives a fair go they quickly become seen as an untrustable geek trying to lead people astray. I definitely like the idea of using a standard signature quietly letting people know i use an alternative. Thanks and regards from a Tom :) On 30 April 2018 at 18:05, Roy Reese <[email protected]> wrote: > > Enviar: lunes 30 de abril de 2018 a las 17:11 > > De: "James Knott" <[email protected]> > > Para: [email protected] > > Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux > Users Group [Facebook]? > > > > On 04/30/2018 08:32 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: > > > Today, I will be drafting the final exam for my students. I will use > LO > > > Writer for the task. I will then email it to my students and they will > > > type their answers right onto the computer file and email it back to > me. > > > I need to get the file to my students in a format they can easily use > > > with their computers. I will use .DOC for this purpose because it's > the > > > easiest solution to this situation. > > > > Recent versions of MS Office are supposed to be able to work with Open > > Document files. Have you tried to see what happens when you use it with > > ODF files? > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > > Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ > Netiquette > > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > That is exactly right, no student today should have a problem reading an > odt file with MS Office as odt support has been incorporated in MSO since > 2007 when MSO also defaulted to the docx format as a result of criticism of > its closed formats. > > Having been sickened early on by the "advertising" coming from Apple, > Samsung and others, the "signature" of my business mail notes that it was > produced using Linux and open-source applications. (If I am forced to use a > mobile, it notes that K-9 Mail is the FOSS source.) One should be making > every effort to promote open source and letting the world know that there > alternatives to the commercial applications that try to hold us captive. > > In the case of students, I would go a step further with a footnote: > > *The attached file was produced by LibreOffice, a powerful Free and > Open-Source Software (FOSS) office suite and saved in the Open Document > Format. To learn more about FOSS, click here. To learn more about > LibreOffice and download it for free, click here. > > The FOSS link might be to this: https://www.gnu.org/ > philosophy/free-sw.html. Of course a link could also be provided to a > Wikipedia or other page about ODF. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://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? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
