[Opensource] BBC Article - Schools warned off Microsoft

[Adam Barbary]

Hi Jim,

I hear your pain on the Access programming. Maybe OO.org might get the  
query thing sorted out in the future. Until then, you've still got  
Office 2003 ;)

If you are keen on giving Scribus a go, there are plenty of online  
tutorials. There is an ongoing series in the Ubuntu Full Circle e- 
magazine which might be useful. Check it out here...

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/

Cheers,

Adam Barbary
Viewbank College
(I'm not anti-Microsoft, just anti-spend)

On 31/10/2007, at 12:08 PM, Jim Maunder wrote:

> At 10:26 AM 31/10/2007, you wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> As a replacement to Publisher you could try Scribus.
>
> Just had a play - seems ok, and you can set it up so the gui is  
> French, which suits us. I have passed it on to our French teacher.  
> We have a French Immersion stream in junior school, and use  
> StarOffice (and XP) with a French gui, but the main thing they  
> missed is Publisher, so well loved by students.
>
>
>> Also have you looked at the Base database program included with Open
>> Office?
>
> Yes, it imports the tables fine, but imports the queries as tables  
> too. Students don't use Access, but I do, and I'm too lazy to do all  
> the macros and code again!
>
> rgds
> Jim
>
>
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