---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 15:45:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Fredrik Ax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Linux in Wired
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Fredik Ax wrote: > > > I disagree! The office suits for Linux (e.g. StarOffice and > > Applixware) are starting to get really good. I can't really see any > > need to run this kind of applications on a windoze system. > > Can they import and create Word documents? > That's *my* problem. The rest of the Department expects me to provide > Word documents. If I could do that in Linux using StarOffice > or Applixware, I'd never need Windows. Since (for some creepy reason) our company's documentation standard is M$ Word, I myself have similair problem. At the moment I'm using swriter3 (Word Processor included in StarOffice 3.1) which reads Word 6 documents perfectly. It even gets all "self-updating" fields like filename and pagenumber etc right. I'm sorry to say so (and I can't understand why) but creating word documents isn't swriter3's strong side. Lot of information get lost (like justification of text etc) when exporting as a word document, but it's at least readable by M$ Word. I have heard that Applixware version 4.2 should be able to export M$ Word documents somewhat better than StarOffice, but I haven't tried it myself yet. Don't give in to them ... keep using a real OS! Fredrik Ax -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
