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SignWriting List<br>August 12, 2009<br><br>Hello Trevor!<br>Thanks sooo much for this explanation...you are right...<a target="_blank" href="http://OpenOffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> is totally new to me. I rarely use Microsoft Office anyway, so you can see I don't even know the correct names for anything! Ha!<br><br>I personally manage very well with the Mac's Text Edit program, that can create the unique rtfd format for the Mac, which is a simple way to get both text and drag and drop graphics into one simple file. Then I create a PDF from that and then everyone can read the PDF...<br><br>And then I use Adobe InDesign for large book layout...<br><br>But we all have to open other people's files from time to time, so I really appreciate this information...and I will recommend OpenOffice.org to people now...it may change my work habits if it is easier to use than Microsoft Office...which is also a wonderful program and we are lucky to have it...I just
haven't learned it well, that's all...<br><br>it sounds like OpenOffice.org it is a success story and how fortunate we all are to have a free program like that...the open source community is really doing good for the world...<br><br>Keep me posted...does anyone have templates for SignWriting Literature created in OpenOffice? If not, later I can try to create some based on the SW 4-column layout...<br><br>Val ;-)<br><br>-------<br><br><br><br>On Aug 12, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote:<br><br>> Hi Valerie,<br>> <br>> If I'd known that you didn't know about OpenOffice.org being available<br>> for Mac OS X I would have told you months ago. I've been running the<br>> version 3 series since February of this year. Fits the Aqua interface<br>> so much better than the version series did because it required the X<br>> server to be installed.Even under X it was usable but the version 3<br>> series is so much better.<br>> <br>>
One small quible with your description. OpenOffice.org is an exact<br>> replacement for Microsoft Office Professional rather than Works. And<br>> at times I've had to use OOo to down convert Office 2007 format files<br>> to Office 2003 format for people not running the latest version of<br>> Office. If you want though you can force it to save files in Office<br>> format rather than OOo's native formats.<br>> <br>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Valerie Sutton<<a ymailto="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> wrote:<br>>> SignWriting List<br>>> August 12, 2009<br>>> <br>>> I have just learned that Open Office 3.1, a free program, is now available<br>>> for Mac OS X. So I just downloaded it here:<br>>> <br><span>>> <a target="_blank" href="http://download.openoffice.org/">http://download.openoffice.org/</a></span><br>>>
<br>>> and installed it, and it is a nice program! It provides files that end in<br>>> .odt<br>>> <br>>> Open Office is made by Sun Microsystems, the developers of Java. It is like<br>>> Microsoft Works, because it provides a word processing program, a<br>>> spreadsheet program and so forth...a drawing program...very nice!<br>>> <br>>> Jonita had asked me a question and sent me a file ending in .odt. I couldn't<br>>> open it before, but now I can, and I made a PDF from the file...So here are<br>>> Jonita's questions...what do these Mouth symbols mean? I will answer next<br>>> message...See attached PDF...<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> <br>>> <br>>> <br>>> <br>>> ____________________________________________<br>>> <br>>> SW-L SignWriting List<br>>> <br>>> Post Message<br>>> <a ymailto="mailto:SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu"
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