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On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:06:59 +0100 Rhia Knowles wrote: > Microsoft did up til Office2007 offer backward (and forward, > surprisingly) compatibility patches, hidden somewhere in the Office > updates section (and I mean hidden, you have to know to look for it > its under the name Office XXXX compatibility pack or similar) Of > course thats no good if you dont have Office, or the admin rights to > install them.... but if tutors said that to me I would 1)Inform them > of its existance 2) go and download aforementioned patch and give it > to them on a CDR. 3) say "If the IT dept install that for you, you > will be able to read the document, and thus do your job." (Yeah, I'm > blunt when I dont think people are being fair. Its gotten me into > plenty of trouble in the past) > > I dunno about ODT though. > > Luckily, SDC has Open Office and Office 2007 installed on all college > machines except the ones in the Common Room which are designed for > filtered internet cafe style access only (and bloody slow to boot) City College Plymouth also has OpenOffice installed on pretty much all computers I've come across so-far. And my colleagues in the ICT teaching dept. (I've been told off for not including the C in ICT. *rolls eyes*) seem quite happy with a lot of Open Source stuff. We use GIMP a fair bit and I'm hoping to win 'em over with Kompozer instead of Dreamweaver. :) Grant. -- 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