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Paul, Thanks for responding. We teach MS Office applications on iMacs with Macintosh Manager. Having worked on MSWord on a PC in a business setting, I only minor differences. Some community members are pressing for PCs , one making that broad statement about high schools in Vermont. As our students do not even see the desktop, I see no reason to moving to PCs which I have found to be less robust and more prone to student mischief. Jane Paul Edmondson OXB wrote: > Jane- > > We teach our business courses on Macs using the MS Office software with > occasional assistance from AppleWorks 6. We use the Microtype program for > keyboarding instruction. Additionally, HTML and multimedia are part of the > curriculum. > > I can say that we have had very good experiences with this setup, and I have > seen very little difference between the MS Office applications we use on the > mac and those on the pc. > > Paul Edmondson > Technology Coordinator > Oxbow High School > Bradford, VT > > > From: Jane Clukay <[log in to unmask]> > > Reply-To: School Information Technology Discussion <[log in to unmask]> > > Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 18:33:17 -0500 > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Business courses on Macs > > > > Hello, > > Someone recently made the comment to me that there are next to no high > > schools in Vermont that are teaching high school business courses (MS > > Word, Excel, PowerPoint) on Macs. > > If you are, please reply. Thanks. > > Jane Clukay > > Wilmington