On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 16:21, John Dean wrote:
On Thursday 27 November 2003 15:46, Alan Harris wrote:
Hi All,
Some thoughts for you re: open file formats ;
At Work I use a Mac, I also use a PC, at home I use a Mac and a PC running Linux. All three run OpenOffice 1.0. I have no problems transferring files (in fact when I can download the newer Openoffice I'll have exactly zero problems, apart from databases that is!).
On both my Macs I have MS Office X and, in work we have a deputy head using office X-pletive on Windows X-pletive. I can't get his powerpoint presentations to load properly on the Mac USING powerpoint! However, they work beautifully if I import them into Keynote!
OpenOffice is free, it's inclusive, it's cross platform BUT, as our Deputy Head so eloquently phrased it - "I don't want to learn OpenOffice!".
Fine, you (DH) pay for all the licenses out of your money and use MS
Office. The rest of us will provide value for money to the tax payer ;-)
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ian