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Adam Latham wrote: > My school uses M$Office '07, with its' fantastically useless xml > type .docx extensions. Naturally, being based in one of the poorest > areas of the country, almost none of the parents of the pupils attending > local schools will have the spare £100 or so to buy Office 2007 (pupils > don't get discounts 'cus they don't buy enterprise > products!(allegedly!)). > > Adam, could I just ask, are you in the Torbay area? I think as a group we should get something in the Herald Express in Torbay to promote Open Source. For instance isn't OpenOffice.org 3 going to support OOXML files? Maybe it's something we should be really promoting. I know for one, as a parent I can't afford a copy of Office 2007 at £100 even if I can install it on 3 PCs. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html