I know that this doesn't address your question, but have you considered =
just sticking with Office 2003? If you look at the primary functions that =
people use in Office, I think you'll find that those features probably =
existed in Office 97. Obviously that's not true across the board, but most =
students are not Office power users. It seems that most office staff use =
pretty basic features, with the exception of mail merge.=20
If you didn't have copies of Office 2003, I would say that you might want =
to entertain the idea of OpenOffice or another alternative, but I'm not =
sure that any office suite would actually offer such a significant benefit =
that you'd want it over Office 2003. Unless we upgrade to Vista's =
successor and it cannot handle Office 2003, I don't see us moving away =
from Office 2003 for quite some time.
Regards,
Bill Griscom
Director of Information Services
Lancaster Country Day School
725 Hamilton Road
Lancaster, PA 17603-2491
717.392.2916 x. 246
griscomb@lancastercountryday.org
>>> Renee Ramig <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org> 7/22/2008 11:43 PM >>>
Hi,
I was wondering if any school has totally done away with using Microsoft =
Office and switched totally to using Open Office. =20
We are still Using Office 2003, and the thought of spending thousands of =
dollars to upgrade to 2007 is just not appealing to me. If you do use Open =
Office for all or most things, can you share with men of anything you have =
found missing in Open Office. Do students, teachers and administrators =
use Open Office, or just one or two of these groups?
Thanks,
Renee Ramig
Seven Hills School
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