Re: [Sheflug] Re: Open Office

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Richard wrote:

>  I've e-mailed MS Word stuff all over the world from my desktop from
> Star Office
> and no one has so far complained.  I mean *everywhere*.  Including
> Hawaii and everywhere else.

A friend of mine wanted me to spell check a Word document for him (He used
Lotus, heh) and Star Office duly did it, but when it saved it to Word
format I couldn't find anything that would read it (Wordpad or Abiword).
As far as I know geographical location has no effect on file format.

> > (I don't think I'll ever manage to make people realise "I want it in Word
> > format" is an ambiguous statement)
>
> No *it_isn't*.  The whole world uses "word Format" and they expect it.

There are 3 incompatible Word formats to my knowledge. And I can never
remember which package reads which, and which package saves which.

> Only if you don't know how to use a computer.  It's completely clear
> that this is true from what you say. If you can't click on a bloody
> mouse then why do you bother to use a computer when you don't have a
> use for one ???

I prefer to use the keyboard. Seriously though, I can't produce good
looking documents in Word. But that's merely an aesthetic point of view.



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