> Just to be clear - what I need is a way to edit MS mixed English and Hebrew > word documents which will be read by Windows users. At the monent the only > way I can do that is by booting into XP ;-( >
If you are creating the documents and others are reading, then there are two solutions: 1) Open Office 3.0 handles MS Office documents <= 2003 in a reasonable manner. If you are producing the documents for distribution, then expect no problems (but don't be mad at me if there are). Sometime receiving documents for MS Office users is not ideal, but creating them is fine. 2) Again, use OOo 3.0 but instead of distributing DOC files, distribute PDF files. DOC files are not meant for distributing, their viewer application is buggy and rarely used (users will likely open the documents in an editor, ie, MS Word) and has other problems. If you need to recieve and colaborate with MS Windows users, you have two options: 1) Buy MS Windows and MS Office and use them. I actually like Microsoft's office suit, but I hate their operating systems! 2) Convince your collaborators to use Open Office. This is suprisingly easy, many people are willing to get rid of MS Office. Although I personally prefer MS Office and use OOo out of necessity (Linux user), I find that most people prefer OOo for some reason, once they see it. Go figure. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
