Here is a story that may help you not being "petrified" about OpenOffice.
I am retired but help a large local elementary school (800 students) with database applications. The school serves a poor community but has hundreds of computers that are invalulable for the learning process. Every teacher has at least one dedicated for class work and students have excellent access. Most are connected via our LAN to the internet. Like many organizations the computers vary greatly in age. We have a mix of Windows (Win98, Win2000, WinXP, Vista, and Mac computers. That means there it's always a problem with knowing what format to use if a file needs to move from one computer to another. But license fees to create a uniform environment are just out of reach. My grandson, while still in school learning computer science, worked at the school as LAN manager. He proved that we could save a lot of money by converting many of our "old" computers to Linix (Ubuntu) rather than upgrade and to install open office on most of the computers regardless of the Operating system. This has been a resounding success, the teachers had no problem with it and the students learn it easily. We still have a number of Windows computers which are needed for special applications. The most difficult step for you will be to download, install and then begin to learn OpenOffice. This forum is just a bunch of users who are ready to help. I hope you will become one of them. Harold Hauge On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > 2009/10/17 Sylvia Sánchez <[email protected]>: > > 2009/10/14 Helene Bigler > > > >> Dear Support Team: > >> I am absolutely petrified to change from Word / Excel on Vista to your > open > >> office. However, even though I purchased my computer with Windows Word > / > >> Excel already installed about a year ago, it seems it has decided my > >> 'license' is no good and unless I spend some $300 + I can't use it > without > >> going thru a rigmarole of tabs, pop-ups and other assorted garbage to > access > >> it! > >> Thus.....YOU were recommended to me. > >> Can I keep all the files I already have on this now non-licensed Word? > >> Will downloading you simply 'transfer' my information to you? HELP! I > >> don't want to loose anything - I am petrified! > >> If I go into remove files to remove Windows Word/Excel will I do. . . > >> what? Damage my files? Loose info? ???? > >> I can type, but I am not totally literate in computereze. > >> Please advise me. > >> Respectfully > >> Helene Bigler > >> Marysville, WA > >> [email protected] > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > If you want, you can use opendocument format (native format of > OpenOffice) > > and export your documents in pdf format when you want share them with > others > > who doesn't use OpenOffice. > > The last MS Office version acept opendocument formats, anyway. > > I export my documents in pdf and have no problem. > > I was going to mention that but somehow I forgot to do that… Yes, PDF > export works great with OpenOffice.org. I have had no issues with it > at all so far. The PDF always looks exactly like the original ODF > file. However, if the person who receives the file wants to edit it, > PDF isn't a very good idea in most cases. > > J.R. > > > > > > > Regards > > Sylvia > > > > > > > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
