After seeing your post, I read more about OpenOffice. Very cool.
I also learned that there is a version of MS Office for Linux. Seems a little backwards to me. Working for the government, it seems that our IT department frowns on having too many variables in the systems they control. So everybody here normally uses Windows with MS Office. It takes really extraordinary circumstances to move away from that, so we may be forced to pay for Office for Linux, even if essentially compatible freeware is available. Sigh.
Still, this all means that we have options that will work, it's just a matter of working with our IT dept. and the equipment vendor to choose the right solution for us.
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I also learned that there is a version of MS Office for Linux. Seems a little backwards to me. Working for the government, it seems that our IT department frowns on having too many variables in the systems they control. So everybody here normally uses Windows with MS Office. It takes really extraordinary circumstances to move away from that, so we may be forced to pay for Office for Linux, even if essentially compatible freeware is available. Sigh.
Still, this all means that we have options that will work, it's just a matter of working with our IT dept. and the equipment vendor to choose the right solution for us.
Thanks!