Office-Compatibility...

Nathan England plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sat, 21 Jul 2001 09:08:33 -0700


I use StarOffice and OpenOffice back and forth all the time.  When I'm in a
hurry I use AbiWord.  The only problem I ever have is if someone has saved
multiple revisions of a .doc file and then email it to me and I open it in
Abi I can see the revision history, and it looks as though it was a monkey
typing!!!  Every spot where something was corrected after a save, both
instances show up..

Otherwise, everything is great, no problems at all.  We even have some with
Office 2000.

nathan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kit Plummer" <kitplummer@qwest.net>
To: "PLUG-Discuss" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:16 AM
Subject: Office-Compatibility...


> I am curious about peoples opinions of Linux-based "office" apps and
> their compatibility to MS-Office.
>
> I have used StarOffice for sometime now, It does fairly well with
> everything except saving Word Documents.  Going back and forth with
> Excel docs is no problem and likewise for Powerpoint.
>
> I haven't used Kword, but according to the KDE website, it's support is
> "bad" at best.
>
> I have tried Abiword, and as a word processor is pretty impressive, tho
> it too has problems with saving Word documents.
>
> ------
>
> Anybody else?
>
> Kit
>
>
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