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| issue52:monopinion [2011/09/28 11:05] – auntiee | issue52:monopinion [2011/10/14 03:36] (Version actuelle) – shinichi |
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| Why is it that our secondary schools insist on buying the latest and expensive Microsoft Office software? Not only do they use our taxpayers' money, but they force the pupils, or at least their parents, to also buy the latest software so that they can complete their homework assignments at home. As a parent, this has been puzzling and frustrating me for the last 3 years. | Why is it that our secondary schools insist on buying the latest and expensive Microsoft Office software? Not only do they use our taxpayers' money, but they force the pupils, or at least their parents, to also buy the latest software so that they can complete their homework assignments at home. As a parent, this has been puzzling and frustrating me for the last 3 years. |
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| **Pourquoi nos écoles secondaires insistent-elles pour acheter la plus récente suite bureautique de Microsoft qui coûte très cher ? Non seulement utilisent-ils l'argent des contribuables, mais, aussi, ils obligent les élèves, ou du moins leurs parents, à acheter le dernier logiciel pour qu'ils puissent faire leurs devoirs à la maison. En tant que parent, cela m'a laissé perplexe et frustré pendant les trois dernières années. | **Pourquoi nos écoles secondaires insistent-elles pour acheter la plus récente suite bureautique de Microsoft qui coûte très cher ? Non seulement utilisent-ils l'argent des contribuables, mais en plus, ils obligent les élèves, ou du moins leurs parents, à acheter le dernier logiciel pour qu'ils puissent faire leurs devoirs à la maison. En tant que parent, cela m'a laissé perplexe et frustré pendant les trois dernières années. |
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| **« Pourquoi n'utilisez-vous pas LibreOffice à la place ? » ai-je entendu de la part de vos lecteurs. | **« Pourquoi n'utilisez-vous pas LibreOffice à la place ? » ai-je entendu de la part de vos lecteurs. |
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| Quoique j'aime beaucoup les alternatives « open source », Microsoft semble faire son possible pour s'assurer que les nouveaux formats, comme docx et pptx, ne peuvent pas s'importer sans semer la pagaille dans la mise en page, les boîtes de texte, le « word art » [Ndt :ou Fontwork, créer un objet « d'art » avec des polices], les polices, le formatage du texte et l'adaptation du texte aux images.** | Quoique j'aime beaucoup les alternatives « open source », Microsoft semble faire son possible pour s'assurer que les nouveaux formats, comme docx et pptx, ne peuvent pas s'importer sans semer la pagaille dans la mise en page, les zones de texte (« text boxes », le « word art » [Ndt :ou Fontwork, créer un objet « d'art » avec des polices], les polices, le formatage du texte et l'adaptation du texte aux images.** |
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| After wiping the slow Vista OS off my daughter's Dell laptop and replacing it with a much faster and more reliable dual boot Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Linux Mint 11 system, she was constantly complaining that she had to waste time re-formatting all her documents and presentations when she switched between LibreOffice and the MS Office 2007 they use at her school. I've tried everything but just could not help her solve this annoying problem. Against all my instincts, I was just starting to consider buying the new Windows 7 OS to install on her laptop so that I could install Office 2007 seeing that I already had a disc with 3 licenses. It was then that I decided to search the web for help on installing Office 2007 using Wine, the Windows Compatibility Layer. After sifting through a number of conflicting posts, and trial and error, I managed to get it working, not on the latest Linux Mint 11 partition, but on the Ubuntu 10.04 partition instead. My biggest challenge was to activate the install because it simply would not let me type anything into the key activation box for some reason. | After wiping the slow Vista OS off my daughter's Dell laptop and replacing it with a much faster and more reliable dual boot Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Linux Mint 11 system, she was constantly complaining that she had to waste time re-formatting all her documents and presentations when she switched between LibreOffice and the MS Office 2007 they use at her school. I've tried everything but just could not help her solve this annoying problem. Against all my instincts, I was just starting to consider buying the new Windows 7 OS to install on her laptop so that I could install Office 2007 seeing that I already had a disc with 3 licenses. It was then that I decided to search the web for help on installing Office 2007 using Wine, the Windows Compatibility Layer. After sifting through a number of conflicting posts, and trial and error, I managed to get it working, not on the latest Linux Mint 11 partition, but on the Ubuntu 10.04 partition instead. My biggest challenge was to activate the install because it simply would not let me type anything into the key activation box for some reason. |
