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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/20/2013 04:05 PM, Jim Kinney
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Brian
Stanaland <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>I should have read the article first. It says the
regular license is tied to a single PC. Not the
subscription plan. That can be installed and removed as
many times as needed.</div>
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<div>Also, my family has been using Google Apps since it
started. We like it. It's great as a common repository we
can all get to. But to do complicated school papers you
really need a desktop application. OpenOffice worked for
us for years until the kids got in High School and the
papers got more complicated and had to use specific
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I found that nearly all M$ .doc templates worked fine in OOo
as long as the liberation font set was loaded. Without that
specific font set, all spacing and alignment was always crap.<br>
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That said, I've seen M$ templates generated on a Winblows
system that were crap on a Mac with Word. I used those
examples to indicate to the school why requiring a specific
template outside of a web form was a bad idea. No, they didn't
understand or change but they allowed a similar looking paper
from a different system. Whenever a .doc was the required
format, my kids would save as MS word 2003 .doc in OOo and the
teacher never knew any different.<br>
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<div>--Brian</div>
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I have saved documents using in LO in various M$O formats and no one
who received them could tell I was not using M$O. I use ODF formats
while creating/editing and then convert to M$O formats.<br>
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I have found I can make my own template from an M$O document of
template (depending on the presence of macros) easily enough. This
is particularly nice if someone expects a standard format for a
particular document.<br>
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Jay Lozier
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a></pre>
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