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Microsoft word update messes up exams in Denmark (www.dr.dk)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sorry for the Danish post i hope you can translate it.

The Ministry warns that Microsoft programs can create problems for written exams for students with Mac computers.

Users who have updated the programs to the latest version may experience the programs running slowly, freezing and crashing. This means that the examinees are delayed in their work and that parts of the answers risk being lost, write the Agency for Education and Quality and the Agency for IT and Learning in a notice to schools.

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 5 months ago (22 children)

I know it sounds crazy, but a better free alternative exists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (13 children)

What do you recommend? I love LibreOffice on Windows and Linux, and it still works well on macOS but the GUI seems weird on it, the buttons are really large. I still use it but my partner is put off by it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly Markdown is perfectly fine 99% of the time. It also has many advantages by just being much simpler

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This is what I do for my own notes now, but could it work for students writing essays and that sort of thing? I suppose there must be some markdown to HTML/PDF/etc converters (also probably ODT or DOCX or whatever).

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