with the exception of star office's messed up bulleted lists (graphics have wierd off-white background) the .doc export works perfectly in my experience - I've used it extensively for business. So does it's rtf export. wordperfect's rtf is gibbled though, although I think it always has been in other versions as well (if I recall). Don -------------- On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, you wrote: > I just finished installing MDK6.0 on my system and then proceeded to install > StarOffice5.1. I then took a Word97 doc from my windoze machine, copied it > to a floppy and opened it up in StarOffice. With the exception of having to > adjust some minor formatting issues, I was pleased with the results. > > I am not sure about saving a document in StarOffice as a ".doc" file, but I > was excited to see it get as close as it did - I am trying to convince > someone as well and thus my experiment. > > Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernardo Rodrigues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 9:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Need a strong convincing argument > > > > > Hi All, > Sorry my mail is a little long. Please be advised of that. > I have got a friend whom is trying to move away from the Windows > environment, but is having a lot of concerns on whether he'll succeed > or not with Linux. He believes that because Linux is being developed > by hackers throughout the world and it does not have a certified > authentication, it will not last for longer. I've tried my best to > give him an overall picture of Linux plus the many things he can with > it, but don't think I was convincing enough. I even showed him some > of my computational work, and the performance of Linux, and many > technical details that Linux has over Windows. But because the > software that I run has a Windows counterpart which does the job for > him he was skeptical, although I could sense how impressed he was > with Linux, Kde, Gnome , AfterStep and other things. > He has asked me this simple question: Suppose that he gets some > work done at work under Excel, Word or Corel and he wants to > continue the same work at home where he has a Linux machine. What > chances has he got in porting is work from the Dos environment to > Linux. > My answer to that was that he could either install Staroffice or > WordPerfect in his home machine so that he could port the job. But > that was all said in theory, since I do not have either of the two > tools in my machine to prove a point, he did not seem very convinced. > Can anybody give me more reasons to convince him. Anyway I'll install > Soffice or WP to convince him. > Thanks in advance for any info. > Regards > > Bernardo
