It annoys me thoroughly that the class that I am taking in Access only wants assignments submitted in Microsoft formats. I have to do the assignment in Open Office dbase and then recopy it in Access. Luke Knowles <sonoftheclayr@gmail.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I agree with you. I only use .doc files because I know that some developer spent hours reverse-engineering that format for me and others to use and I don't want to go and no use it. My school also has Dreamweaver and Photoshop and such installed on most of the computers and half of the computers with XP are incapable of running it, even though they would run Kubuntu (Xubuntu would be faster) beautifully. Challenging the "industry standard" (I use quotes because M$ isn't) is great fun! I always complain about M$ at school and try to sell Linux as much as possible. I'm doing it now. Anyway enough from me. <DIV>On 4/30/07, Roman Wissner <<A href="mailto:roman_wissner@gmx.net">roman_wissner@gmx.net</A>> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Mark Wallace wrote: > The site you refer to is almost five years old. > > The premise is also no longer true. Open Office opens .doc files and I haven't seen too many problems in formatting. It probably didn't in 2002. It implies that Open Office isn't as versatile as it really is. > I didn't actually want to start a discussion about this, but these are the reasons for doing so: I think that Microsoft Office documents best viewed using MS Office; when I try to open them in OpenOffice I can read them but they will look slightly different to what they should look like. That's why there are special formats designed to look the same regardless of the platform (e.g. PDF). Secondly, accepting word documents requires software that can read word documents. Since MS could change the document format relatively easily with a new release this might lead to a period where we can't read the attachments. I think it's better be on the safe side as far as that is concerned. Additionally, I don't agree with a some things the FSF says but I do think that we should challenge the view that there is only Windows/MS Office out there. Anyway, that's just my (probably slightly paranoid) opinion on these things. Maybe it's because I'm young and think that there might be a way that Linux and other open source software might be recognized one day (PCs with a choice of operating systems sold at PC World; free formats for documents, etc; people making informed decisions about their software [my school has the full MS Office packet, Macromedia Dreamweaver etc, but most about half of our Sixth Form computers are physically broken - surely there must be better way to invest that money]...) Respectfully Yours, Roman Wissner -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <A href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html </A> -- kubuntu-users mailing list <A href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <A href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</A> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> -- "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." - Thomas S. Szasz -- kubuntu-users mailing list kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users </BLOCKQUOTE> Robert Mark Wallace Tita P Wallace Regina E P Wallace R M Ceferino P Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Telephone: (845) 566-0586 <hr size=1>Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. <a href="http://ca.answers.yahoo.com">Go to Yahoo! Answers.</a>