OpenOffice

[Robert Bushman]

I have it on Mandrake 8.1 (on several machines) and
on my Win2K machine - several others using it on their
Win2K machines. We have all tried saving files back
and forth to Word, Excel, PowerPoint (just for the oooh,
aaaah, factor :). No reported errors (though Open Office
0.x and StarOffice 5.x both had numerous bugs).

Have not seen a lockup with OpenOffice 1.0 on any
machine, though did have some troubles with StarOffice
6 installed from RPM (via MandrakeClub). Not lockup,
but the app would crash if I used /usr/bin/soffice
then tried to save. I had to use
/usr/local/share/StarOffice-6.0/program/soffice

Bob

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jim wrote:

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> OO 1.0 here on both Linux and W98 have the option to save a document in Word
> 97/2000/XP, Word95, Word 6.0, and RTF formats.  I have not tried to save any
> documents under these formats because we have no way of verifying the
> compatibility with Word, which does not run on any of our computers.
>
> On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:25, you wrote:
> > A friend of mine has a Windows machine which until
> > recently had only the ancient MS Works (notice that's
> > *not* MS *Word*) for a word processor. At my suggestion
> > he got OpenOffice. He tells me that he can't save a
> > document from OpenOffice in Word format. I find that
> > hard to believe. Is that true?
> >
> > I've got StarOffice, which I used for that sort of
> > thing until I finally acquired MS Office on my Windows
> > machine. The one and only reason I ever used SO was so
> > I could read and save word processing documents in Word
> > format. Can it really be true that one cannot save from
> > OpenOffice in Word format?
> >
> > I tried downloading and installing OpenOffice on my
> > Linux system, but the first two times I brought it up
> > it hung my system so tight I had to reboot. Enough of
> > that nonsense. I couldn't get it off my system fast
> > enough.
>
> - --
> Jim
>
> Freedom is worth protecting
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