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Re: [LUG] Open Document Format

 


On 18/03/2016 17:56, Philip Whateley wrote:
> I work in IT support a couple of days a week at a local primary school.
> 
> The financial admin. was putting together a SFVS (schools financial
> value standard) report for Devon County Council.
> 
> Interestingly the only electronic versions of the standard form
> available on the DfE website were pdf (locked, so read only) and odt. MS
> Word 2016 was (predictably) unable to open the odt so I installed
> LibreOffice so she could complete the form.
> 
> I know that a couple of years ago the Cabinet Office mandated odf as a
> supported format for central government, but this is the first instance
> I have seen of it being the only editable version publicly available.
> Anyone else seen examples?
> 
> Phil
> 


I would advise you to advise all schools to load LibreOffice to their
computers both  in admin and scholars
-- 
regards
Eion MacDonald

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