[OPLINTECH] Office 2007 on public workstations?

[Avery Shifflett]

Craig,

Our library has Office 2007 installed for the public on all available
machines.  In the past few months I can't report any problems.  The only
thing is getting the patrons used to clicking on the 'orb' in order to
perform file functions such as printing.  Once they get used to it, most
prefer Office 07 over the older versions.

Also, here is a registry hack if you have multiple versions of Word so
that it won't keep re-registering itself.

Go to the section titled:  'Multiple Versions of Word'
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091


Avery Shifflett / Technology
Carroll County District Library



> Hello,
> I'm wondering how many library systems are offering Microsoft Office 2007
> on
> their public workstations?  If you aren't, what alternatives do you offer?
> An older version of Office?  A version of OpenOffice?
>
> We are considering installing it onto the public workstations, but I'm
> reluctant to do so as it has been problematic for us on the staff
> workstations (resoure hog which requires us to increase installed base of
> RAM, interactions with our catalog software and other Java based apps,
> corruption of data tables, etc.).
>
> Craig Heaton
> System Administrator
> Clermont County Public Library
> heatoncr at oplin.org
>
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