Yet another thing that is useful comes out of the UF courses. A link was provided for the Open Office suite of programs. These can take the place of Microsoft's version and it's FREE :). I have limited experience with it so far, but it looks and acts much like the pay-per version. Any time I get a chance to avoid MS's monopoly, I'm happy. If anything pops up in this realm I'll update my thoughts, but it seems to be simple and similar. For the download, follow this link: Open Office
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Be careful with Open Office. I had it on one of my machines and it totally crashed it.
It also caused the MS Power Point program to act up so badly that I discovered that it has a recovery feature (not the way I wanted to find it out!!!).
WOW, I haven't seen that yet. This year, my school purchased new computers. Teacher computers will come with the office '03 suite, and the open office. Student computers will have only the open office...ought to be interesting!
Thanks for the heads up.
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