atw: Re: OT Writing tools

The free & very good OpenOffice uses the international Open Document
Format (ISO/IIEC) I believe, so I wonder why educational institutions
insist on a Microsoft product for document submission.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice

Peter


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:44 PM, NifwlSeirff
<nifwlseirff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/1/27 Jean Hollis Weber <jean05@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Christine Kent wrote,
>>>
>>> Google Docs - it seems pretty good, and amazingly it does save to PDF,
>>> as well as Word, RTF, and OO.  It even does presentations that you can
>>> save to PowerPoint!
>>> I wonder if anyone is using it?
>>
>> I have heard that Google Docs is popular in tertiary education, where
>> groups of students work together on projects. Especially in distance
>> education, all the work is done online, with the final product saved to PDF
>> or presentations or whatever is needed to turn in as the assignment. For a
>> group project, that's a lot easier and more efficient than emailing files
>> back and forth.
>
> Even for non-group projects, it's useful when one person works on multiple
> computers, and requires access to their documents.  Google Docs offline is
> excellent for writing during my commute.
> I use GDocs all the time for my coursework, but must submit .DOC format to
> meet my course requirements. It is a nightmare fixing all the formatting
> problems generated by exporting to .DOC (tables, lists, etc.).
> It is still good to know HTML fairly well and a little CSS, as you need to
> hack the source to get tables to display correctly. I hate working with
> tables in Word and Frame as well, so I may be biased. The HTML/CSS that
> GDocs automatically generates is quite messy.
> I haven't tried the GDocs -> OpenDoc -> .DOC export path yet, it's rumoured
> to require fewer corrections.
>
> Kym
> --
> www.nifwlseirff.net
>
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