On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:18:16AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:57:03AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > It's not anywhere close to being compatible. Many MS Office documents
> > can not be read or display incorrectly in OpenOffice. This issue exists
> > in both the Windows and Linux versions of OO. Try it out at home first
> > with some typical documents that your office uses and see what happens.
> > I was very disappointed and ended up buying MS Office for my home
> > desktops. OO couldn't even handle my trivial home files.
>
> How very strange. I've not been using it in production, but I did run it
> through its paces on some of my nastier Word docs, and it had no problems.
>
> Is there something strange you're doing WRT normal Word usage--exotic
> plugins for manual generation, or somesuch?
Nope. My documents were fairly basic with tables and graphics. A few
different fonts and formatting features but no plug-ins nor macros.
.../Ed
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