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have you tried it with koffice or abiword?
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On Friday 03 May 2002 05:19 pm, Joey Kelly wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > The biggest concern many MS users have had against switching OS is
> > that they might not be able to access their old files. Well, as of 5/1,
> > www.openoffice.org released their FREE office suite which is fully
> > compatible with all MS Office 2000 formats. Maybe hizzoner might be
> > interested in saving the city a few (hundred thousand) bucks.
>
> <snip>
>
> Actually, it's not 100% compatible. I got a .doc file from Cox yesterday
> that had a table and some background shading, and OpenOffice 1.0 couldn't
> render the text inside the table cells. WordPerfect 9.0 couldn't either,
> for that matter. I will admit that it was an advertising letter for the
> most part, and no one should send fluffy stuff like that to someone else if
> it's in a business context, anyhow.
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