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--- Forwarded Message from "Wolfgang E. Adolph" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:50:46 -0500
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum              
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>From: "Wolfgang E. Adolph" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #8127.3 Open Office
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
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We have StarOffice 7 in some PC labs (can't 
afford Office with the extra cost for the foreign 
languages), and it has been working just great.
I am impressed with the FL languages tools 
(speaking for German - it really works well).
But  if I had my way, we would go back to good WordPerfect ;-)

Wolfgang

At 04:03 PM 1/26/2006, you wrote:
>--- Forwarded Message from "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:41:50 -0600
> >From: "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: #8127 Open Office
>
>Several of us use it here... some for daily use, most for specialized
>uses (such as publishing to PDF!)  My take is it's a full-featured and
>very capable MSOffice-like suite.  So if you have to use the MS
>compatible approach, it's a great choice.  I still prefer the
>WordPerfect approach to word processing, so I haven't jumped in yet with
>both feet.  But I do use it occasionally and it works very well.
>
>PS Our campus has offered as a supported standard Star Office, which is
>Sun's branded version of Open Office.  I actually like the latter
>better.
>
> >>> [log in to unmask] 1/23/2006 12:15:56 PM >>>
>--- Forwarded Message from Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.0.0.040405
> >Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:55:14 -0600
> >Subject: Open Office
> >From: Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
>
>What is your read on Open Office, a free office suite, a multiplatform
>and
>multilingual free product? There are many people involved in the
>development, but it is a project under the management of Sun
>Microsystems.
>
>TBob
>
>Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D
>Professor of French
>Vice President, American Association of Teachers of French
>Director, Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
>Director, Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project
>Director, Andy Holt Virtual Library
>Department of Modern Foreign Languages
>Univ. of Tennessee at Martin / Martin TN 38238
>Email: [log in to unmask]
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Wolfgang E. Adolph
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Department of Mod. Lang. & Linguistics - DIF 316
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