School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007

WS Nick writes "Batavia school district in Illinois is recommending that parents of high school students upgrade their home computers to Microsoft Office 2007. Why not use one of the free alternatives and relieve parents of some of the financial burden they face to buy all the stuff for their children the school requires?" A comment from a reader points out how easy it is to interoperate with Office 2007 from earlier versions.

Comments

Re:Just a quick question?

[Osty]

Of course when I went to high school, teachers only accepted work in plain old "dead tree" format. And were not talking about the 60s or 70s, but the 90s. Sure at home I might have had Wordpad [god bless...] at my disposal, but the teacher wouldn't except work in that format, so I'd have to print it off at home or school.

Your English teacher didn't do a very good job.

• "Were" is the past plural of "to be". "We're" is the contraction of "we are", which is what you were looking for.
• Parenthetical comments are set off by parentheses (thus "parenthetical"), not brackets.
• "Except", when used as a verb, means "to exclude". "To accept" means "to take or receive". Unless you meant that your teachers wouldn't exclude work in that format, you meant to uses "accept". Using except here actually negates your argument by saying that the teachers would accept work in Wordpad (RTF) format.

Re:Just a quick question?

[gaelfx]

You see, if he had been using MSOffice 2007, all of those hopeless little errors would not have occurred. Further proof that it really does bolster education.

Re:Just a quick question?

[cbiltcliffe]

"Were" is the past plural of "to be". "We're" is the contraction of "we are", which is what you were looking for.

His apostrophe key is broken. Give him a break.

"Except", when used as a verb, means "to exclude". "To accept" means "to take or receive". Unless you meant that your teachers wouldn't exclude work in that format, you meant to uses "accept".

His 'a' key is also broken, and he didn't think /.ers would notice.

And one more thing: 'you meant to uses "accept".'
Meant to uses? WTF? Even the fscking /. grammar nazis can't get this shit right. I'm all for correct spelling and grammar, but man, hypocrisy pisses me off more than anything....

Re:BECAUSE THERE IS NO FREE ALTERNATIVE

[aichpvee]

They're not particularly straight forward on Slackware. Before you say I should try another distribution keep in mind that I don't actually like Linux, I like Slackware.

Re:BECAUSE THERE IS NO FREE ALTERNATIVE

[cblack]

if it is Florida State University, Go Noles!

Screw FSU, Go Gators!
(I have no problem losing karma over that, it was worth it.)

Re:BECAUSE THERE IS NO FREE ALTERNATIVE

[Anonymous Coward]

Go Go Gadget Copter!