I have opened a few non-trivial Word docs in OO (build 643 in Win), and it does not screw up too many things. Transitioning to OO would not be too difficult (except for rewriting Word macros in OO's equivalent).
But I can't really see OO being used for round-tripping (i.e. for working on Word docs that will then be opened and worked on in Word). Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901 Hlade's Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person. They will find an easier way to do it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ogoldshmidt@;computer.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 4:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open Office VS. MS Office (performance) Dvir Volk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know it's not, but still, 27 seconds to load swriter? WTF? Are they > compiling it on the fly? :-) and it's not much better on linux. That I can live with. However, in a few years of using Star Office and recently Open Office for *viewing* Word-created documents I have yet to see a non-trivial (meaning more than plain text, but rather text with figures, tables, equations, and the likes) English document that would be rendered without much garbage or omissions by any OS office application. In my experience, they just don't work, and I am not inclined to worry about performance issues as yet. Currently using StarOffice 5.2 and OpenOffice 1.0.1 on RH7.3. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================== First binary search algorithm - J. Mauchly, 1946 First correct binary search algorithm - D.H.Lehmer, 1960 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
