Michelle herbert wrote: > I am going to take an on line course and they say that I will need to have > access to Microsoft Office 3. Can I use openoffice in place of the > Microsoft 3? Will others be able to open the documents that I create? > > Thanks in Advance!
Assuming you meant MS office 2003 (which I also use for final corrections in a VM), yes, you could use openoffice. However, I have found in practice that formatting almost always breaks between Openoffice doc and MS Office doc. This problem becomes more acute when figures and other floats get involved. I do not particularly care for WYSIWG tools myself, and if I had to produce a quality document, I would use LaTeX or LaTeX with beamer (for presentations), but given the reality of the world out there, you are better off using MS Office. I say this as a person who has little use for Microsoft tools or OS'es in general. For no fault of its own, Openoffice is not ready for prime time use in a mixed office suite environment. God knows how this situation might improve if Microsoft started supporting ODF, but things being what they are, ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
