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On 19/03/16 10:11, Philip Whateley wrote: > Unfortunately I am not in a position to do that, good as it would be. > > However, the next interesting stage will be when Devon County Council > receive the document which they then can't open, and we say "it's a > central government standard." > > I'd still be interested in any UK examples of odf only documents. A lot > of the DfE stuff is available odf and MS, but this was the first time I > had seen odf only. > > Phil > > On 19/03/16 09:49, Eion MacDonald wrote: >> >> >> 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 >> > > Probably because MS Office 2013 and 2016 both support converting PDF to Word format. So all bases(MS/Libre/Open Office) are covered - well in a round-about way at least. Dave -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq