[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA List document sharing

[Robert]

Hi Mark!

The issue is not about what version of MS Office McKinnon or any other 
school has "standardised on". Unless of course the whole world has 
standardised on it.

This is an issue of information sharing, making sure that we have a file 
format for the edulists, not just the ITA and SD lists,  that all users can 
easily create/open.

Those of us on the ITA and SD lists are perhaps rather more IT savvy than 
those on other lists.

So my concern.

Before I retired from full-time teaching, and so lost my govt laptop and 
associated software, I just went on quite happily  using Microsoft Office 
file formats and assumed that everybody else was able to open those files. 
Now I am retired and of course I have no (no cost) access to the new MS 
software. Then of course thought about others, either not teaching at 
present or in non-govt schools who do not use MS Office 2007.

Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
Ashwood and Traralgon
robert at yinnar.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kelly" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
To: "Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List" 
<itapps at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:51 PM
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA List document sharing


> I'm open to arguments.  McKinnon standardised on Office 2007 this year.
>
> I often save back to 2003 version for other people, but one loses new 
> magical features.
>
> Kevork - do you have the facility to set up a simple online survey so 
> people can tell us what Office versions they use, or what they'd prefer 
> for document sharing?
>
> (Holy Virtual Team Relevance, Batman!)
>
> -- 
> Mark Kelly
> Manager - Information Systems
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