for administration, which, in our case, is about 4 people.
: )
Students seem to have adopted it without a blink. Staff have had some
issues, and the difference, I think, is that staff demand more of their word
processing in terms of formatting and general style. Overall though, the
ransition bumps have been small and far between. We've retained MSO for
admin for two simple reasons: re-training the staff isn't worth what it
costs for so few copies and secondly, MSO is just an easier program to use,
IMHO, for turning out good looking documents.
If however, the scale of our organization were different, I would likely
come to a different conclusion.
Last note: something to keep an eye on is Adobe Acrobat. They have a
document sharing system that, while in its early stages, looks promising.
Word processing is done through Buzzword, which is easy to use and very
attractive. No spreadsheets or presentations as of yet, so in that sense
they're pretty far behind Google Docs: on the other hand, GDocs just
released a bunch of templates, which may help in moving away from the bland
kind of WP they've offered in the past.
To be honest, my biggest problem right now is picking one and *sticking to
it!*
: )
In peace,
Norman Maynard
Principal, Thornton Friends Upper School
Silver Spring, Maryland
www.thorntonfriends.org
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Renee Ramig <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if any school has totally done away with using Microsoft
> Office and switched totally to using Open Office.
>
> 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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