[MACEP] Open Office comments

[Mike Ely]

Hi,

I have staff here that rely upon OpenOffice and gripe when they use 
Office, where others are the opposite.  I think OpenOffice is as useful 
as its more-expensive counterpart, but is also different.

For myself, I use it extensively as I do not use any platform that 
Microsoft Office runs on.  My only real complaint is how the Calc 
spreadsheet program handles importing csv data - the UI path to get 
there is so counterintuitive as to be nearly impossible to figure out 
without googling.  Other than that, it works extremely well.

Cheers,
Mike

Roseanna_Juhola at Santiam.k12.or.us wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm playing with OpenOffice.org and considering beginning to migrate
> student machines to this FREE alternative to MS Office. I would be
> interested to hear from any of you who have used it. So far, I haven't
> found anything that I don't like about it, but am just a few days in. It
> also seems to be pretty easy to translate files between the two
> applications, but then I'm used to working cross-platform, so don't have
> any problems with file transfer.
> 
> Also interested in what kinds of responses you got from staff and parents
> when you started the transition. I like the prospect of being able to offer
> the software to parents to use at home, and thus giving the kids
> consistency on both ends for their files.
> 
> Any comments would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks a bunch,
> 
> Roseanna
> 
> 
> Roseanna Juhola
> Networking and Technology Support
> Santiam Canyon School District 129J
> Mill City, OR  97360
> (503) 897-2368  #25
> roseanna_juhola at santiam.k12.or.us
> 
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