All OFS documents for both students and teachers will be in Open Document Format (or pdf) from January 2009. This will include:
- All documents shared between faculty
- All documents submitted by students
- All documents shared by faculty with students
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| Click here to see Open Office video tutorials |
| Click here to access Open Office documentation |
All faculty documents have been in Open Document Format since January 2008
OFS Adopts OpenOffice 3.0 as its Office Application
- OFS expects all faculty use OpenOffice as the office application on all school computers.
- OFS requests all students and teachers to install OpenOffice via free download on their home computers.
OpenOffice 3.0 runs on:
| Windows |
Macintosh |
Linux |
Solaris |
and can be downloaded at these locations:
Mac OSX (Intel), Windows, Linux, Solaris
http://download.openoffice.org/
Mac OSX (PPC)
http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0rc4/OOo_3.0.0rc4_MacOSXPowerPC_install.dmg
In the first week of the Open Office 3.0 release, over 3 million copies were downloaded
OFS has donated S$15,000
(US$10,000) to OpenOffice.org for use on our 1500 computers |
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While Open Office 3.0 is open source and available free, you may wish to make a small donation to OpenOffice.org when you download. |
Language Support
In addition to strong multi-language support within all versions, there are specific Open Office downloads (some are not yet version 3.0) for many languages, including:
| Afrikaans |
Arabic |
Chinese |
Danish |
Dutch |
| English |
French |
German |
Hindi |
Italian |
| Japanese |
Korean |
Norwegian |
Polish |
Portuguese |
| Russian |
Spanish |
Swedish |
Turkish |
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See more complete list at: http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html
Document Conversion
Documents in Open Document Format can be saved using recent versions of Microsoft Office, but we strongly recommend that all teachers and students download and use Open Office for all their:
- Word Processing (.odt instead of .doc)
- Spreadsheets (.ods instead of .xls)
- Presentations (.odp instead of .ppt)
- Drawing (.odg)
- Also included in Open Office is a Database (.odb)
Teachers and students who have existing documents in MS Office format (ie. .doc, .xls & .ppt) will be able to open them with Open Office and save in Open Document Format.
Training videos
These are available via the IT help-desk on the school website:
http://www.ofs.edu.sg/help-desk/using-open-office/
These can either be viewed directly or downloaded and viewed. The best choice depends on your bandwidth.
Open Document Format has been adopted by hundreds of organisations:
- Governments
- Schools and Universities
- Private sector
To view examples of major deployments see:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments
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