Re: OT: Massachusetts Verdict: MS Office Formats Out

From: Tim (ignored_mailbox_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: 09/29/05

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:50:14 +0930

    On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 14:26 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
    > When I use OpenOffice, and want to save something that I created using
    > MS Office, I find that it frequently wants to warn me that
    > I may be losing some special features. For this reason,
    > I have abandoned using OO for editing stuff created with MSO.
    >
    > I don't know enough about these things to know whether anything
    > in the files are actually at risk, but rather than lose them,
    > I re-boot to Windows and do the editing there.

    Do a test... Usually, the warnings about things like how some document
    formats mightn't support some styling effects, might not do tabs or
    margins in the same way, etc. 

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