Tom,

Tell your students that if you get documents from them in a form you can't 
read, you'll send them their grades in braille only.  Better still, send 
them audio files with their grades and your corrections in Morse code.  If 
they complain, tell them to learn the code.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 16:44
Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007


>    Yup, I may think about making that part of the requirement.
>
> Let's see how downloading the compatibility pack goes.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob - KA5ETA" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:35 PM
> Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007
>
>
>> Tom if you have your students save their work as a 2003 doc then you will
>> be
>> able to read it.  2007 should have that feature, all other version have
>> had
>> it.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:20 PM
>> Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007
>>
>>
>>    Bob:
>>
>> I've thought about it, but at this point, since the University uses Jaws
>> for
>> all of its adaptive computers, it probably would be more trouble than 
>> it's
>> worth.
>>
>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bob - KA5ETA" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 3:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007
>>
>>
>>> Tom I have not been keeping up on your problem but have you thought 
>>> about
>>> trying a demo of Window Eyes to see if that might work better?  Yes I
>>> know
>>> that it would be a learning curve.  But something is better than 
>>> nothing.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:23 PM
>>> Subject: update on switch to Office 2007
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi, all.
>>>
>>> I just wanted to update everyone who might be interested on my 
>>> continuing
>>> saga with Office 2007.
>>>
>>> I just got off the phone with the University's Tech Support people. ...
>>> My
>>> initial reason for calling was to ask them to put Office 2003 back on 
>>> the
>>> University's laptop computer.
>>>
>>> They told me that they hated to do that, since the entire university,
>>> including the computer labs the students will be using, are switching to
>>> Office 2007 this summer.
>>>
>>> So, if I go back to Office 2003, I won't be able to read any of the
>>> documents students send me on Office 2007 machines at the University.
>>>
>>> So, it now looks like I'm stuck with Office 2007, at least on the
>>> University
>>> computers.
>>>
>>> Still haven't heard from Freedom Scientific yet.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to deal with this, other than
>>> some nice strong tranquilizers?
>>>
>>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>>
>>
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