[SC.LUG] OpenOffice.org@Wilmslow High School

[Jason Lucas]

You could always run MSO under WINE (www.winehq.org) or CrossoverOffice
(www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/)

Jason.
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 17:00, Geoff wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 16:42:19 +0000
> "Rick [Kitty5]" <rick at kitty5.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Personally, the main reason OO isn't my first choice is
> > that documents often have to be read by other people using
> > MSO. OO does a fair job of opening Word docs these days,
> > but the saving tends to munge the formatting; Meaning I
> > have to open my doc in Word anyway to fix it up.
> > 
> > The comfort factor is an issue, but not as big as document
> > portability, especially as almost everyone can open Word
> > docs.
> 
> /unlurk 
> 
> Me too.  I would *love* to abandon vmware/win98/MSO, which
> is the last vestige of Mr Gates' output on my system, but I
> make much of my living producing documents which are
> e-mailed to my clients all of whom are on MSO and which
> simply must be right in every detail.  For many years I used
> WordPerfect and I have a large archive of stuff going right
> back to v.4.3 for DOS, but in the end even WP's export
> filters were not up to the job.  I don't suppose there will
> ever be a complete solution for this, which is very
> depressing.
> 
> Geoff
> 
> /relurk
> 
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