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Hi Karen,
I'm not surprised. Star Office is a good product with one outstanding
virtue - it's free! That right. The program can be freely downloaded
and reproduced. It can be obtained at:
http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/
There is a registration process that must to be completed before the
software can be downloaded but, that's all!
This is a fully functioning program which is similar to MS Office.
It has a word processor, spread sheet, database, presentation
program, and e-mail program. Star Office can even import & export
Microsoft files.
Unfortunately, Star Office is only available for Windows 95/98 and
Unix/Linux Operating Systems. There's no version available for a Mac.
I've used it a bit. It seems to work well and is about as difficult
(or easy) to learn as MS Office. The user interface is similar but
definitely not identical.
If you don't need to teach students specific MS Office skills but are
instead looking for affordable word processing, database, or
spreadsheet software, Star Office is hard to beat.
Hope that helps.
>I just found out our supt wants to use Star Office 5.2 instead of Microsoft
>products. I requested PowerPoint and was told this was just a good. I would
>like to hear from anyone who uses Star Office and what you think of it.
>thanks
>
>karen Brostad
>Bennington Public Schools
>Bennington Ne
>Elem Tech Coord
>kbrostad@huntel.net
>
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