(that comes with some extras over OpenOffice) here
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 11:46 -0500, Inman, Alex wrote:
> We've been using Open Office for about three years now. The big
> downsides are that multimedia doesn't work as well in Impress as it does
> in Powerpoint, but that looks a lot better this summer. I'm hoping to
> see a significant improvement.
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> I would STONGLY recommend setting the default save formats as the Office
> 2003 formats. Also, get the plugins to save to the Microsoft OOXML
> (Office 2007) formats. The transition to and from OOXML is not as
> smooth as it should be and MS is re-writing the whole format to deal
> with this. Thus, I would still default to the MS 2003 formats.
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> Lastly, Open Office (as opposed to Star Office) does not include clip
> art. However, you can go get open clip art and then install it. They
> you build the galleries and it's done. If you are interested, I have
> one of our students build us a clip art gallery. Its open clip art, so
> I'd be happy to share it.
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> Take care,
> Alex
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> Alex Inman
> Director of Technology
> Whitfield School
> St. Louis, MO
> 314.434.5141
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for independent school educators
> [mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen Edele
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:12 AM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Open Office
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> I'm afraid I can't offer any advice because next year will be our first
> using Open Office schoolwide, but this is to let you know that we are
> removing Office and installing Open Office on all student and faculty
> computers over the summer.
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> Stephen Edele
> Head of School
> The Harbor School
> P.O. Box 1912
> Vashon, WA 98070
> 206-567-5955
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> > I was wondering if any school has totally done away with using
> Microsoft Office and switched totally to using Open Office. =20
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