Re: 3. Re: Installing MS Word with Wine (sdavmor)

On Thursday 19 October 2006 16:22, Derek Broughton wrote:
Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Trevor Wiseman wrote:
I have to ask WHY? OpenOffice Word Processing will do everything that
Word
can do and can read/write .doc files for free? Maybe I'm missing
something. Good luck.

Yes it can do most of what MS word can do, but their still are
compatibility issues. Ex. I tried to work with OOOrg 2.01 within a group
of 6 writers, the other five were on word '03. We were tasked with making
up a documentation of a very large IT project that took about 500 pages,
done with very sophisticated word usage. I found it impossible to cleanly
interfere with this group using my OOorg and had to switch back to

Frankly, it shouldn't be too difficult to "interfere" with them :-) It's
hardly fair to blame it on OO. ime, it's impossible to use Word for
collaborative projects, because it won't even let two Word users edit a
file without overriding someone's preferred formatting along the way (e.g.,
today, my office-mate was writing minutes for a meeting, using the previous
meeting's minutes as a template. The "attendee" list had been formatted in
two columns - whenever he tried to change any name in the list, it reverted
to a single column).

I use OO writer almost exclusively when I am developing a document, but unless
the document has only very simple formatting I pull it up in Word before
e-mailing it to the customer. I also sometimes get documents that won't open
in OO writer.

Word is certainly not perfect, but it is a defacto standard many of us have to
deal with. I have started, with some of my more clueful customers, to send
dcouments in both .doc and .odt format.

If the deliverable is on paper or if you have a customer that is open source
friendly, then I think OO writer is suitable for most subjects. As an
example, this book:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/buildpc2/

was written with either OO writer or Star Office (I don't recall for sure).

Scott K

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