atw: Re: OT Writing tools

Peter Johnson wrote:
> 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.

Habit, I think, and the result of years of Microsoft marketing practices.
Many educational institutions are beginning to make the switch, to save licensing fees and to allow students to legally use the same program at home as they use at school/uni.
Fortunately, for most purposes, using OpenOffice.org to produce documents and then saving them into a .doc format for final submission works fine. 

Kym wrote:
> 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.).
> [...]
> I haven't tried the GDocs -> OpenDoc -> .DOC export path yet, it's
> rumoured to require fewer corrections.

I must try that! Would be good to know how that goes.

--Jean
Jean Hollis Weber
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project Co-Lead
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