Ohio University Libraries News and Events

Do you use Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows?
Do you send your documents to your professor via email or Blackboard?
Can your professor can open your documents?

If your professor uses Office 2007, you’re good to go.

However, if your professor uses Office 2003 for Windows or Office 2004 for
Macintosh, he or she may not be able to open your Office 2007 documents.

View this video to learn how to solve this problem.

The video is also available on YouTube.


Addendum for Macintosh Users: Since the new version of Office for Mac is still a few months away, here’s what you can do to open documents created in Office 2007 for Windows.

• The Pages, Numbers, and Keynote programs in iWork ‘08 can open files created by Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Office 2007 for Windows. The filename extensions are .docx, .xslx,and .pptx, respectively.
• NeoOffice, a free, open-source program can open Office 2007 files. For more information and downloading, see the NeoOffice site.
• Microsoft has provided a free utility program which will translate Word 2007 (Windows) documents into RTF (Rich Text Format) files which can be opened by Office for Mac.

With any luck, all should be resolved when Office 2008 for Mac is released this Winter.

Even though they love you to stop by and/or call to renew your videos, you can now renew them ONLINE. Just go to YOUR LIBRARY ACCOUNT and renew just like you would a book!
The same renewal dates apply:

• Undergrads: 2 videos, 2 days. One renewal for 2 more days
• Grad Students, Faculty and Staff: 5 videos, 1 week. One renewal for one more week.

The Friends of the Libraries at Ohio University will hold a book sale on Oct. 18-20, 2007 located in Alden Library’s 4th floor lounge.

The hours are: Thursday, 7-9 p.m.; Friday, 10-6 p.m.; and Saturday, 10-4 p.m.

“When you support the Friends, you are supporting all of Ohio University every discipline, every student, every faculty-by helping to build and maintain a great library.”

Corrine Swartz and Brittany Monnier won $100 gift certificates for local bookstores in the October 2 drawing.  More than 1,000 Code Game tasks were completed, and grand prize winning names were drawn by Interim Assistant Dean for Public Services Wanda Weinberg.   A third grand prize winner has not yet responded to e-mails.  Over 100 instant prizes such as pizza coupons and frisbees were awarded to those lucky enough to have a prize designation on the task they finished, and names were drawn weekly for a 2Gb jump drive.

The Library now has full-text electronic access to seventy years of the influential national African-American newspaper, the Chicago Defender. The years covered are 1905 to 1975. To quote from Proquest, the database provider, “The Chicago Defender, Historical allows researchers to study many significant events in American history that received only cursory attention from other newspapers. The Defender strongly advocated for equality among all races. During World War I, it successfully urged African-Americans to leave the segregated South to work in the industrial North. It covered the Red Summer Riots of 1919, editorialized for anti-lynching legislation, and published Walter White and Langston Hughes, as well as early works of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks.”

The Chicago Defender joins two other electronic historical newspapers in the Library’s collection, The Washington Post (1877 to 1990) and the New York Times (1851-2003). The three newspapers can also be searched simultaneously. All three can be found both on ALICE and on Infotree.