On Saturday 11 December 2004 06:31 am, Stephen KÃhn wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Hi. > > > > The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word, > > but not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer, and then open it with > > Word, > > some information turns out to be lost or modified. > > Isn't there in the Linux world > > any application that be *completely* Microsoft Word compatible? > > > > Rodolfo > > Let's change the perspective a tad. > > Microsoft Word is not compatible with anything else because they refuse > to stick to a standard - and it even changes in between versions of MS > Word.
Hear, hear! I went through several of those conversions back in my days as a wage slave. It was made worse because the corporate practice was to unleash each new version on those of us out in the boondocks over a period of months. > Originally, MS Word tried to work on the standard of being backwards > compatible with WordPerfect and all the rest of the word processing > programs - but not. > > Save your MS Word documents as HTML and ditto with OO documents. You'll > be happier in the long run (and you can view the documents in a browser > as well). > > MS Word is NOT the standard in document processing even though they want > you to think so. Maybe we should start filling up the Windows lists and forums with complaints that MS Word keeps screwing up our OO documents. -- cmg
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