The Format Wars rage yet again.
Saving in the .doc file format would be easiest for the teachers using
MS Word to deal with. As long as the formatting is not
too extensive or complex, this should work well. Since MS's .doc file
format is proprietary and changes with each new version
of MS Word, it is a moving target and not all obscure features and
formatting are guaranteed to work across OOo Writer and
MS Word or even between different versions of MS Word.
Slightly less versatile but more standardized is the Rich Text Format
or .rtf. This is a format created by MS and available in
every version of MS Word that I can remember. Rtf may not be capable of
some of the fancy formatting of .doc, but for school
papers this should not be a problem. It would still allow the teachers
to use MS Word.
PDF would require the teachers to have a pdf reader of some kind on
their computers. This is something not always
guaranteed. And some schools lock down the computers so that installing
a pdf reader may be a problem. PDF files
also can be larger. Pdf files do excel at displaying documents as they
originally appeared including formatting and
typefaces. Pdf files are not easily edited.
We are fortunate to have OOo as it lets us use all three of these
formats as well as Open Document Format and several
others so that we can send and receive files from many other word
processing programs across many different platforms.
This is a feat that few other word processors can do as easily out of
the box.
I would suggest asking the teachers what they would prefer. It is they
who the intended audience.
Ross Bernheim
On Jan 13, 2006, at 6:33, Anthony Chilco wrote:
Hi Carrie,
I'd suggest that your daughter submit (with her teacher's approval}
her work in PDF format. OOo has an 'export to PDF' function. That way,
her work will be readable on any computer system using software that's
freely available.
tc
Wangshanpo wrote:
From another member on this list
Jekke Bladt wrote:
Carrie--
Your daughter can use OOo to do her work and, when she is finished,
save
it in a Microsoft-supported format. Provided that she does so, her
teachers will be able to read the documents using Microsoft Office.
Simply use the "Save As" feature and save in Microsoft Word, Excel,
or
PowerPoint format.
--Jekke
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From: homeschoolingmom1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 8:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [users] [moderated]
Have a question, I was looking at openoffice software, which my
daughter
could use for school, because microsoft office is so expensive, can
she
use open office, and when they check her work they can see it in
there
microsoft word?or they won't be able to.
thanks
Carrie
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