Hi Carrie,
It is worth bearing in mind that when you download Open Office, and unzip
the archive and run the installer, one of the first options that you get is
the ability to set up whether to save in the various MS Word, Excel,
Powerpoint formats as standard.
I have selected this option everytime I have installed Open Office, as most
of the people I have to communicate with are running MS Office.
I have been trying, though unsuccessfully to convert my work away from MS
Office to Open Office, unfortunately like a lot of corporate IT people, they
just love shelling out a fortune in licences, and cannot see that it is
possible to not pay. But hey their loss. and our IT budgets loss.
I have found few if any times when files created by me on Open Office have
not been instantly readable in the equivalent MS Office package.
Perhaps some of the more esoteric formulas in Excel stump Open Office
Spreadsheet, but I doubt that this will affect your daughter in any material
way.
Sometimes, Word documents, have minor formatting issues, though most of
these are due to my choice of Font, font size and weight. These differences
happen between different MS Word users too, so not really a great issue.
I hope this helps. Feel free to get back either on here or direct to my
eMail address, if you require any more assitance.
73 de John
homeschoolingmom1 wrote:
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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