[K12OSN] Open Office

[john]

:-)

A fine question indeed.

John

On 6/8/07, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>
>  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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