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...serious work on a computer, chances are you were pulled into Microsoft's Office web long ago. Since it controls 75% of the market, you probably use one or more of its applications: Word (for word processing), Outlook (for e-mail), Excel (for spreadsheets), Access (for databases) and Powerpoint (to make tedious, overhead-style slides for interminable meetings). The premium package adds the Web-page builder FrontPage; the image manipulator PhotoDraw; and Publisher, a desktop publishing program. It comes on an intimidating four (!) CD-ROMs, but I needed to install only the first disk to get started; the others hold...
...saves your formatting so that headline-size fonts, italic text and so on show up online pretty much as they appeared on your screen. Likewise, if you save your files to a Web server, co-workers can grab, change and replace them automatically using the same program--Word, Excel, FrontPage--that created them...
...want to clarify some issues raised in the article "Word, Excel No Longer Free on Harvard Network" (News, April 13). We chose not to participate in the new Microsoft Campus Agreement because it required payment for the software for every student, whether or not he or she used the software or already owned it. Picking software for personal productivity is an individual choice and students who own a computer should also own the productivity software of their choice. For students who need Microsoft Office but do not own it, we provide the latest version for use on all public...
...want to clarify some issues raised in the article "Word, Excel No Longer Free on Harvard Network" (News, April 13). We chose not to participate in the new Microsoft Campus Agreement because it required payment for the software for every student, whether or not he or she used the software of already owned it. Picking software for Personal productivity is an individual choice and students who own a computer should also own productivity software of their choice. For students who need Microsoft Office but do not own it, we provided the latest version for use on all public lab computers...
Harvard doesn't excel in the diversity of its speakers; the vast majority of Commencement speakers in recent decades have been world political leaders. One of things I dislike about the Institute of Politics' seeming monopoly on big-name speeches at Harvard is that the majority of outside leaders who come through campus are politicians, as if they are the only noteworthy people and role models in the world. We need more scholars, artists and true heroes at Commencement. Or how about a controversial figure? I suppose that in order to withstand Harvard's rigorous standards for selection, most Commencement...