Im in the same boat only the other way around as im doing a course at our
uni here I wont install vista yet the uni are now installing it all over the
campus. I think I will go all linux that will fox em.

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of T Behler
Sent: 29 May 2007 21:28
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007

    The problem with that is, when you have between 80 and 100 5-page 
papers, scanning is a lot of extra work, plus, when a document is scanned, 
then it's harder to tell whether any errors are the student's errors, or 
errors created from the scanning process.

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mike" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: update on switch to Office 2007


> Get your students to send in hard copies on paper then scan them
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of T Behler
> Sent: 29 May 2007 19:24
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>