by Nick Varney.
Many thanks Davo for the reply. I have seen Open-Edit-Save up and running for MS Word on the VLE platform that we are currently using. As we move to Moodle it has already been seen as a big change and wrench not to have that facility in Moodle.
The automatic conversion to PDF you mention as being at the idea stage would hit the nail on the head for us as it's the process of creating a PDF that staff have flagged as being a small but significant hurdle for students and cited as a reason for assignments not being handed in.
Thank you for the clarification.