<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br>Have you looked into using portable apps on a USB stick, would be a balance over speed vs hassle saved.<br>http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable<br>There's Abiword too for the lighter option.<br><br>Mark<br><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Kris Davidson <davidson.kris@gmail.com><br>To: Tayside Linux User Group <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk>; Jason Cormie <Jason-lug@wormwood666.demon.co.uk><br>Sent: Thursday, 16 October, 2008 20:09:37<br>Subject: Re: [dundee] The Distro Swap Shop<br><br>While were in that area. Theres a few open source apps on the<br>University workstations as it is. Is there any chance of
getting Open<br>Office deployed or at least some parts of Open Office? If so do we<br>need to talk to or lobby someone?<br><br>I work around it now by exporting to PDF then printing, saving to doc<br>format isn't ideal and sometimes screws up. I mean giving out CDs is<br>going to pretty useless if the workstations don't support the formats.<br><br>Kris<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee@lists.lug.org.uk</a> <a href="http://dundee.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">http://dundee.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee</a><br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></div></div></div><br>
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