Brian Barker wrote:
At 19:09 27/02/2008 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
2008/2/27, Julia Ross:
I am doing school online so it has to be Office Word, Excel, and
Power point.
... that there have been MANY [students] - some undergrad, grad, and
quite a few doing all of their studies online. NONE have any problems
at all, and it's VERY, VERY rare that any on-line professor will
mandate that you send him a file completed with MickySoft's Office!
NB: This is not a criticism of the above, but merely a continuation of
the thread.
If a student needs to submit coursework in some fashion that the school
can deal with, then the close compatibility of OpenOffice and Microsoft
Office - in terms of final file formats - is no doubt sufficient, as you
say. But it is perhaps worth mentioning that there is one exception to
this compatibility issue, and this may apply to this particular questioner.
Sometimes students will be taking a course in the use of Word, say, and
will be given precise instructions such as "Now open the so-and-so menu
and select the blah item" or "Now press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to do whatever".
For this purpose, Writer will not substitute for Word - just as Word
would not substitute for Writer if a user were following a course in
[snip]
Of course......this is a given.
I haven't seen any college courses, except at SOME community colleges,
for M$ Office - in entirety or in part (i.e. just Word, etc.). MOST
universities and colleges assume students already know how to use most
software - at least one word processor.
I suppose the fact that some users use terms like "Word" to mean
"generic word processor", "Excel" for "spreadsheet application", and so
on may also encourage this confusion. In any case, potential users
cannot be blamed for trying out OpenOffice for this purpose, or for
asking if it would be appropriate. In this limited circumstance,
though, anything other than the application that is the subject of the
course simply won't do. Even a different version of Microsoft Office or
a heavily customised copy of the same version probably wouldn't.
Probably not. From the question asked and what we were told, I can not
assume that it was a "Word" course, however.
Fred
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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