Date: prev next · Thread: first prev next last
2014 Archives by date, by thread · List index



On 04/17/2014 11:14 AM, Jeffrey Deutsch wrote:
Hello,

I'm thinking of applying for an online tutoring position at Tutor.com.
However, they require that tutors (and applicants, for the mock tutoring
session) have Microsoft Word (2007 or later) itself -- they specifically
say that OpenOffice is not acceptable. I'd rather not spend $110 just to
get MS Word (or $140 for MS Office, or $10/month or $100/year to rent MS
Office) for this specific job, when OpenOffice/LibreOffice has worked just
fine for me for the past decade.

Does anyone here have any relevant experience (eg, does Tutor.com in
practice allow OpenOffice/LibreOffice, is it absolutely necessary to get MS
Word, do you know of similar online tutoring services that allow
OpenOffice/LibreOffice, etc)?

Thank you in advance!

Jeff Deutsch
Speaker & Life Coach
A SPLINT - ASPies LInking with NTs
http://www.asplint.com

"Listen to the universe while it whispers before it has to shout."
Marion Grobb Finkelstein, Communication Catalyst --
http://www.MarionSpeaks.com

Jeff,

Either they do not know a number of applications can handle the vast majority of MS Word documents, not just LO. I have at least four applications (all available at no cost some FOSS and some proprietary) on my Linux box that can read/write MS Word documents plus Google Docs. Or they use VBA macros which is a very, very, very, very serious security risk/stupidity. If they are requiring running VBA macros, I would seriously question their competence and/or ethics for risking anyone's computer. My experience is that many VBA macros can be replaced by a template with user entry fields.

The normal security rule is never allow a foreign (one you have not reviewed/written) VBA macro to run on your computer because they have been a notorious attack vector in the past. The problem is there is often no indication in the file extension a macro is present that could run automatically when the file is opened. I would generalize this to never allow any foreign macro to run on your computer.

--
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

Context


Privacy Policy | Impressum (Legal Info) | Copyright information: Unless otherwise specified, all text and images on this website are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. This does not include the source code of LibreOffice, which is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPLv2). "LibreOffice" and "The Document Foundation" are registered trademarks of their corresponding registered owners or are in actual use as trademarks in one or more countries. Their respective logos and icons are also subject to international copyright laws. Use thereof is explained in our trademark policy.