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

[Matthew Tolley]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:58 +0100, Richard Smedley wrote:
> 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 


I wasn't aware of that plugin. Hitherto I've solved the problem by using
pdf or (at a push) doc formats when sending stuff digitally. 

Now I might just be awkward and send odf files with a link to the
plugin!

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't ODF the internationally agreed
standard here anyway?



Matthew