[K12OSN] Open Office

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Waitasec...how come this isn't feasible if he's the teacher?  My
teachers and professors always specified a document format, or they
wouldn't grade my papers.  Why is that considered outside "reality"?

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john wrote:
> Hi Derek,
>
> I don't know if you are in any position to do this, but how about
> saying that you'll only accept assignments saved in .rtf format, which
> most word processors can do?
> Ok, and now back to reality ;-)
>
> As far as I know, and I have looked around in the past, only MS
> publisher will open publisher files. You could have your students save
> the file as .html (which publisher will do) open it in Open Office and
> convert it.
>
> There are convertors for .docx. Look here
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#Converters
>
> I'll let someone else chime in about the .wps files.
>
> HTH,
>
> John
>
>
>
> On 6/7/07, Derek Jaques <djaques at corbett.k12.or.us> wrote:
>> Does anyone have any ideas how to open .pub (MS publisher files)  .wps
>> (MS works defaut) or .docx (Vista word??)  files?  I have a plethora of
>> students who have term papers in these formats from home.  If Open
>> Office cannot open them, is there another program that will with the
>> default K12LTSP distro packages?
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>>
>> Derek Jaques
>> Corbett School District
>>
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