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A note from the other side. I was a professor for many years, and for the last 10 or 15 years, my students handed in their work electronically.
Here's an important thing: if the person who's going to read what you hand in is going to read it electronically, then you need to use Word. As a professor, I was annoyed when I'd be sent something in who-knows-what format.
And seriously, you don't want to annoy your professors. No, I never downgraded anybody because I had to work hard to open and read their work, but I never kidded myself that if I got one of those late at night before everything had to be handed back, that it got the same careful treatment as everybody else's. Yes, of course I tried and of course I tried not to be influenced by what the student was making me do.
And BTW when I was teaching I hated Word -- loved WordPerfect -- but I too had to use Word, because that was the college's environment.
About PDFs -- sure, everybody should be able to open and read PDFs. Absolutely. But what if, as I used to do, the professor wants to make comments in the document, thus being able to return the work to the student with embedded comments. A PDF then requires the prof to do extra work. I work with PDFs -- now -- all the time, and annotating them is annoying.
Bottom line: in the actual world of college, giving your professor something that takes extra work to read is a bad idea, and that's why good (bad) old Word is the safest choice.
Here's an important thing: if the person who's going to read what you hand in is going to read it electronically, then you need to use Word. As a professor, I was annoyed when I'd be sent something in who-knows-what format.
And seriously, you don't want to annoy your professors. No, I never downgraded anybody because I had to work hard to open and read their work, but I never kidded myself that if I got one of those late at night before everything had to be handed back, that it got the same careful treatment as everybody else's. Yes, of course I tried and of course I tried not to be influenced by what the student was making me do.
And BTW when I was teaching I hated Word -- loved WordPerfect -- but I too had to use Word, because that was the college's environment.
About PDFs -- sure, everybody should be able to open and read PDFs. Absolutely. But what if, as I used to do, the professor wants to make comments in the document, thus being able to return the work to the student with embedded comments. A PDF then requires the prof to do extra work. I work with PDFs -- now -- all the time, and annotating them is annoying.
Bottom line: in the actual world of college, giving your professor something that takes extra work to read is a bad idea, and that's why good (bad) old Word is the safest choice.
You need to download OneDrive from MS. In order to subscribe to Office 365 or if you purchase the stand alone Office 2016 suite, you will also need a MS account. Once your account is activated and you subscribe to O365, MS will give you 1TB of storage space. OneDrive will appear on the left side of your Finder along with Applications, Documents, and others. You can drag and drop documents, photos, and other things to the OneDrive icon. You can then sync them to your iPhone or iPad (you will need OneDrive on those devices in order for that to occur).
OP, chiming in a bit. First, some good recommendations here - I use both Word and Scrivener, the former for most of my production work and the latter for the work/papers I publish in my line of work, both are cross-platform. A couple of tips, from a long-time Word user who still stays in touch with the needs of students as I hire interns for some work in my offices.
I'd offer sticking with Word, with a couple of caveats. Office 2019 and the updated Office 365 are due out in about 6 weeks or so, with MS unifying the two OS interfaces when Office 2019 is issued; they're already beta testing the "corporate" version of Office 2019 and the two suites are pretty similar right now across common apps (obviously no Access or Publisher on macOS). The "online" version of Office is already being pushed in the web interface (via Outlook.com) - it, too, will share a common code base with all of the other mobile and desktop platforms (starting last February).
That bit written, yes, I used Word back in the late '80s in university (v. 5.1, still one of my favorite versions...). Used then, and now, for document exchange amongst peers.
And, you should be aware of student programs for free and discounted software, there's a bunch of them - including MS. MS, for years, has offered a program just for educational purposes. Up to 4 years of free access to Office 365 - it used to be a free license to Office - all you need is an .edu email address for activation. It's detailed here - it's not a US-based thing, my GF took advantage while going to school in London and Edinburgh without issue:
https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education
Good luck in university, and cheers.
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Thanks for the explanation
So I guess one drive will be just to make backups of important documents and photos?
So if I am at university and want to open something saved on one drive....would I have to download the one drive software or can I get access from opening one drive on google without downloading the software?
It has been said in other threads, but there really isn't a "best" program for writing. It is what you can do with it and how it works into your work flow.
If your professor requires a word document for submission, that is the format you should submit it in.
My work flow is the following:
Create the document within Scrivener where it has all of my notes, external document sources such as videos, pdf files, etc as well as the layout/sections of the document that I can move around as I need to.
Then I move/export my final document to Word for final formatting.
If your professor requires a word document for submission, that is the format you should submit it in.
My work flow is the following:
Create the document within Scrivener where it has all of my notes, external document sources such as videos, pdf files, etc as well as the layout/sections of the document that I can move around as I need to.
Then I move/export my final document to Word for final formatting.
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Once you install OneDrive on your Mac and other devices, the OneDrive icon will always show up on your Mac and other devices. There is no need to download it again. And no need to use Google for anything.
Neither - I'm on the 365 subscription, but it's paid for by my University (for all staff and students). For students it covers their whole period of study, and I think 6-12 months afterwards. I know many other UK universities have similar arrangements for free or heavily discounted 365 subscriptions, so it's worth checking.
Use Pages.
Easiest to use. And if need be you can save it as doc or docx.
If you have to work with others just use iCloud’s collavorate feature and send them the invite link. The others can then work in the browser. Works like a charm!
Easiest to use. And if need be you can save it as doc or docx.
If you have to work with others just use iCloud’s collavorate feature and send them the invite link. The others can then work in the browser. Works like a charm!
