On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:43 PM, kwalsh2004 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello - > > I am writing to every e-mail address I could find on your Contact Us/Help > page on your web site. I teach computers part time at two small private > elementary schools - and one of them couldn't afford the licenses of MS > Office, so we've been using Open Office. I found it to lacking in all the > things that would make it easier for these younger kids to learn the > application, like Clip art, page borders, etc. > > That aside, I am writing to tell you of my latest issue. I usually use MS > Word at home to write up my lesson plans, but last week, I updated the > page in Open Office Writer and saved it in the same format (MS Word), not > OO > Writer. When I tried to open it today, in MS Word (my home computer) - none > of the text in my table is there - 99% of it has dissappeared! The > onlything > left was my headers and 29 blank pages (it was only one page when I saved > it). > > I had to download Open Office on my home computer, where I was able to open > the Word document in Writer. When I copied the table into a new Word > document, it was all messed up - the rows and columns were not the size > they > appeared in Writer (or the original Word document), so I spent about 30-45 > minutes to fix one of my lesson plans so that it look like I had it > originally. I have 4 total to fix. There was a one-page plan for each week > (Jan. 25th and Feb1st), and each had 3 columns (one for the class period > times, and one for each day that I teach: Tuesday and Thursday and the > other > was Wednesday and Friday), and one school had 10 rows and the other had 11. > Now I have to fix the other two, and I don't really have 3-4 hours to waste > fixing this. It's been a struggle with the kids, but I have learned my > lesson - I will never use Open Office for any of my personal and > professional documents. > > Kim Walsh > > (P.S. I didn't register the version we use in school as we are hoping to be > able to afford MS Office next year and didn't want to be part of any > feedback study, or receive any e-mails or spam.) > I'm sorry you have had such problems. This mailing group is your best bet for getting help. I'm not sure where your problem might be. Like other users here, I've been using OOo exclusively for some time (two years in my case) for my own documents and sharing with others in the district using MS Office. I easily receive, read, edit, and return their documents to them from within OOo. My department (an English department with 18 staff members) uses OOo for all student work. Students save their documents in MS Office format for use at home, and bring them back and use edit in OOo without a problem. We make copies of OOo available to our students -- many of whom can't afford MS Office -- who use it without a problem. I hope you give us a chance to help you figure this out. OBTW, you'll never get spamed or asked to participate in a survey by filling out anything by registering your copy of OOo. -- -- Mark C. Miller [email protected] [home] [email protected] [church] [email protected] [school] [email protected]
