On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 13:12 -0500, J. Craig Woods wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Why you don't forget M$ Word and try with OpenOffice or Staroffice 6.0? > > > >Francisco Alcaraz > >Murcia (Spain) > > > > The Spaniard is RIGHT ON.... > > Free yourself from the shackles of servitude, break away from the billy > gang, liberate you soul from the world of micro$oft. Do it now before it > is too late....
Yes, wunderful, right. But let's be realistic. If you are in your own home/office you may use whatever wordprocessor you like. When you are in business or working in a corporate environment M$ Office is still the standard. If you want to share documents with other companies by ways apart from printouts you have to comply to the standard. Not because the standard is better quality but because you don't want to have your customers or business partners on the phone complaining they can't read your calculations or documents. You can use StarOffice, OpenOffice or Abiword or what ever as long as these programs produce documents readable by M$ Office. If these programs can import a word doc and - after editing - export it into M$ Word without any loss of format, then I will happily switch to the Linux Office World. It's the same with motorcars. If I find a gas station where I can get alternative fuels everywhere I will at once buy a car with alternative motor. Until then I'll have to buy a car which runs on gasoline. wobo -- Registered Linux User 228909 Powered By Mandrake Linux 8.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- PDAs? Laptops? Linux? UnddasallesineinemWort? http://www.xtops.de !
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