Johnny Andersson a écrit :
2007/4/28, Marc Paré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Michael Adams a écrit :
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:35:17 -0400
> Marc Paré wrote:
>
>
>> Has anyone tried the various filters available for Word for the .odt
>> format? I would like to suggest that my school board, where I teach,
>> install a filter for OpenOffice files as many of my students are now
>> using OpenOffice at home. Are there any import/export filters that
can
>> handle all formats for the OpenOffice suite?
>>
>>
>
> Because it is free and will batch convert all the files in a directory
> (folder) you could use OpenOffice.org as the filter.
>
>
Sorry, maybe I didn't write up the question well enough. My school board
uses MsOffice exclusively but I think they will entertain installing a
filter to accommodate those using OpenOffice. The filter would have to
be added to Word. Sadly, installing OpenOffice at this point would most
likely not be an option.
Marc
So at school, MS Office is used, but some (or many) of the students use
OpenOffice.org at home? And now you want to install a filter at school so
the students' documents can be opened in MS Office?
If you just tell the students to save their work as MS Office 97/2000/XP
(.doc, .xls etc), you don't need a filter. If the students are
supposed to
also write macros, these won't work, however.
If you don't need to edit the students' work, and no macros are required,
the best way is to tell them to export their work to PDF.
If you don't like to talk to the students, you need a filter at school.
Unfortunately I don't know much of this. The closest I got, searching
with
google, was
this<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=169337>,
but I don't know how relevant this information is for you.
Johnny Andersson
Thanks for the tips.
I guess the idea was to get our IT department to recognize that a filter
for odt files is now a necessary thing and seeing that OpenOffice fills
in the gap from the point of view of productivity as well as price that
it could be considered as a replacement for MSOffice. Our budgets are
constantly under pressure. I also promote the suite at school and
encourage the students avoid using pirated software which is why so many
of our students are using OpenOffice at home. They are also aware that
they can also save in .doc/ppt etc formats, but if they could they would
save in odt and not worry about the file format changes.
I think I will do as Manfred suggested and try to direct IT to the
daVinci page.
Marc
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