Open Office 3.1 for Mac OS X and Windows

[Ronald Dettloff]

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From: SignWriting <signwriting at mac.com>
To: SignWriting List <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:27:02 PM
Subject: Re: [sw-l] Open Office 3.1 for Mac OS X and Windows

SignWriting List
August 12, 2009

Hello Trevor!
Thanks sooo much for this explanation...you are right...OpenOffice.org 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!

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...

And then I use Adobe InDesign for large book layout...

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...

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...

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...

Val ;-)

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On Aug 12, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Trevor Jenkins wrote:

> Hi Valerie,
> 
> If I'd known that you didn't know about OpenOffice.org being available
> for Mac OS X I would have told you months ago. I've been running the
> version 3 series since February of this year. Fits the Aqua interface
> so much better than the version series did because it required the X
> server to be installed.Even under X it was usable but the version 3
> series is so much better.
> 
> One small quible with your description. OpenOffice.org is an exact
> replacement for Microsoft Office Professional rather than Works. And
> at times I've had to use OOo to down convert Office 2007 format files
> to Office 2003 format for people not running the latest version of
> Office. If you want though you can force it to save files in Office
> format rather than OOo's native formats.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Valerie Sutton<sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
>> SignWriting List
>> August 12, 2009
>> 
>> I have just learned that Open Office 3.1, a free program, is now available
>> for Mac OS X. So I just downloaded it here:
>> 
>> http://download.openoffice.org/
>> 
>> and installed it, and it is a nice program! It provides files that end in
>> .odt
>> 
>> Open Office is made by Sun Microsystems, the developers of Java. It is like
>> Microsoft Works, because it provides a word processing program, a
>> spreadsheet program and so forth...a drawing program...very nice!
>> 
>> Jonita had asked me a question and sent me a file ending in .odt. I couldn't
>> open it before, but now I can, and I made a PDF from the file...So here are
>> Jonita's questions...what do these Mouth symbols mean? I will answer next
>> message...See attached PDF...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> --Regards, Trevor.
> 
> <>< Re: deemed!
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