Re: [SLE] HELP please

From: Richard Atcheson (ratcheson_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/15/05

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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:41:39 -0500

    On Saturday 15 October 2005 02:35 am, Andre Truter wrote:
    > No, she has OpenOffice and she does use it, but the problem is that
    > she works in collaberation with other people on presentations.  And
    > the other people all have MS Office.
    > I have tested one of these presentations in OOo and it screws it up.
    > Once you have made changes to it in OOo, and send it back to the other
    > people, then everything is out of place for them, so they move if back
    > in place and when you get it, it is out of place again.
    > The different interpretations and availability of fonts are also a problem.
    >
    > No, she needs to use MS PowerPoint in order to collaberate with the
    > other people.
    > I suggested to her to run PowerPoint under Crossover, but now it seems
    > that installing MS Office XP have a number of issues.

    Ok, here's another couple of thoughts.
    1. checkout the Crossover maillist at discuss@crossover.codeweavers.com
    2. Look at this url:
    http://crossover.codeweavers.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss

    3. Check into the OpenOffice group to see if they have a solution for her
    problems @ users-subscribe@openoffice.org

    I wonder if you have tried the latest 2.0 version of Impress....

    RA 

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