Rodolfo wrote: >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?
Simon Roberts wrote: >When people send you .doc attachments in email, >tell them that you can't accept them as they are a virus vector, >and insist that they send you plain text >(or pdf if it's something fancy that you don't need to modify readily, like a contract). >Just a thought, I know it's hard to do sometimes, >but if we all push back, eventually we'll win. Carroll Grigsby wrote: >Maybe we should start filling up the Windows lists and forums with complaints >that MS Word keeps screwing up our OO documents. Simon, Carroll, I perfectly agree with you; nay, if it depended on me I'd never use Microsoft Word: I'm a TeX user. The problem is not much when they send you .doc attachments in emails, because 'kword' manages to read them excellently. The problem is that they *want*, e.g. curriculums vitae in .doc format, so if I want in the next future more and more do *without* MS Windows I need a tool to produce documents with Linux that MS Word will be able to open and correctly read. According to Paul Kaplan exhaustive report on the matter, I'll try Abiword and Wine, hoping they can help because the problem is really 'serious': I won't be able to avoid using MS Windows until a solution will I find. But, please: excuse my ignorance: what are OO documents? Cheers, Rodolfo
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