[SC.LUG] ODF in MS Office -- was: Re: OpenOffice in schools

[Richard Smedley]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 13:52 +0100, David Holden wrote:
> > > As it is I suggest you keep you your assignment as is and point you
> > > school to where they can download free software to view it, e.g. open
> > > office.

> > But if Open Office will not write an Office 2003 compatible version of
> > this assignment, will it be able to read it on a Windoze PC?  Would a
> > PDF version be acceptable?

> I'm not suggesting saves as office 2003, I say save as ODF and tell them to 
> download openoffice.

While it would be good for them to have OpenOffice.org, and better
still for them to have it on a Free Software platform, they can 
open ODF docs from Microsoft Office by installing Sun's plug-in:
http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/

 - Richard 

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