You can read doc files, but you cannot conveniently write them--unless you can get Open Office to work for you, which is probably not going to happen. Your teacher needs a different attitude, and you should not be shy to say so--but, of course, you should not say so so bluntly. For example, instead of saying "get a new attitude," you might ask: Don't you actually mean that I should give you something that you can read and that communicates to you the work that I have done for this class? Isn't that what you care about? Surely, you don't really mean that I should first go make Bill Gates a little richer than he is today in order to pass this class? The point is that you can write ASCII very easily and your teacher can read that. He/she might complain that it doesn't look pretty, which is when you might go to the next argument. But, you could offer to learn a little html, which will look quite pretty and isn't hard to learn. It's worth learning to write simple html, and this should be an acceptable compromise--though you may have to press a bit to get it. If the teacher persists about word, ask who is supposed to pay the thousand dollars (approximately) to get the Windows software that's required to make Word work for you--and who's to pay for the training you need to get proficient in it. Then again bring up the point of what learning is all about. Is it about using particular tools? Do they really care whether you use Kimberly-Clark paper and Papermate pens? Or do they care that you learn the subject and how t communicate what you have learned. The problem is probably that the teacher is barely capable of using computers, because he/she didn't grow up with them as has struggled to learn. This may not be the case with your teacher, but it is a very common story today. When your generation becomes the teachers of tomorrow's students, things will be different--but this is how things are today. So, most often, today's teachers don't understand these things until they have been carefully explained to them. I encourage you to be bold. Be respectful, but stand up for principles. If you do that, you will learn the most important lesson that can be learned in life. Gustafsson Kristoffer (elev) writes: > Hello! > How do I save and open.doc files in linux? > I want to leave windows and use only linux, but when I tried my teacher got angry with me because I couldn't save as a wordfile when he wanted it. > so, is there any program for this? > /kristoffer > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list