Office Productivity Tools
Policy
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It is the Policy of School of Engineering and Electronics to migrate
to storing all new internal documents and core teaching material in the
OASIS
standard document format
by September 2006.
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The School will standardise on the OpenOffice suite for producing
such work.
Information Sources
Implementation Road Map
- Mar 2003
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OpenOffice becomes the office tools component of
School core application
set and becomes available on all systems configured by IT team.
- Oct 2004
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As part of the rolling upgrade cycle,
academic staff begin trialing the suite for everyday work.
- Feb 2004
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All systems configured by IT team Unix/Linix/MS_windows
have OpenOffice v1.1 loaded native.
EUCS Microlabs support the same stable release.
- March 2004
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The School
per se
ceases funding of any purchase of MS-Office licences.
- May 2004
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The college support team
deliver training to the School
Weds 5th May, 2pm, LT1
NB: This is intended to inform you of the salient features.
- July 2004
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Update all EETO machines to current standards.
- From June 2004
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Recommendation to all staff that all new lecture material is prepared using
OpenOffice.
- From August 2004
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All exam papers for 2004-5 session are to be submitted in OpenOffice format.
Interim
In the interim, the version of MS-Office used should not advance beyond
Office XP.
Use of Office 2003 is very strongly discouraged.
[The School joined MS-Campus-3 scheme in June 2004, enabling copies of
MS Office to be upgraded to MS-Office-XP for the interim period.]
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