Ian Great to hear from you again ! Have you tried OpenOffice (freely downloadable and distributable from www.openoffice.org )instead of StarOffice. It is supposed to be compatible with Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but I don't know about the macros. Regards, Grahame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REFURBISH AND REUSE IS BETTER THAN RECYCLE Grahame Leon-Smith, Chairman of Trustees Tel +44-1932-874303 Fax +44-1932-874068 FREE COMPUTERS FOR EDUCATION Registered Charity No. 1059116 PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT < http://www.free-computers.org> and for further information just send a blank email to: < mailto:free-computers-news-subscribe@yahoogroups.com> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Ian Birdsey [mailto:ian_birdsey@blackboard-associates.com] Sent: 14 May 2004 08:00 To: Paul Taylor; suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] School use of OpenOffice.org Dear all, My company recently installed Star Office into a cambridgeshire school with great success. The only problem that we found is that some LEA's and softwrae "houses" produce "helpful" programs for teachers but only allow it to work with Excel (the macros do not correspond). The school then had to purchase M$ office suite just to get this other program to work. Regards Ian
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Taylor [mailto:ptaylor@uklinux.net] Sent: 13 May 2004 20:44 To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] School use of OpenOffice.org
On Thursday 13 May 2004 17:57, Paul Jensen wrote:
Out of curiousity, how many of you are currently using OpenOffice.org as the main Office Productivity software in your schools and
colleges, and are > there any major issues popping up about using this software? > My school has taken away the LEA service contract for the local primaries (currently 6, soon to be 10) and all of them have a mixture of OO and M$. The network manager tells me that the students there prefer using OO and the staff are rapidly warming to it. The network we offer them is Netware with M$ clients but we are all hoping that it will soon be Netware and KDnetwarEian. As ot us, we have tried it on the network but (so I have been told) it was problematic as far as defining the place on the network to store files or somesuch. > I'm at Cass Business School in London, and I'm hoping to expand on this to > see how the software would fare for businesses and organisations in London. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger > http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger
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