[PLUG] OpenOffice-641

[Sean Lewis]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Geoff Burling wrote:
> How well does OpenOffice import & export WinWord documents? The reason I ask
> is that in my last job where I had to use Word extenisvely, I was surprised
> at just how brittle MSWord documents were: at a certain size, the file would
> start losing its formatting -- which was also eaisly lost if one merged two
> or more MSWord documents.
> 
I work in an M$ shop, and I've never had trouble with formatting on Word 
conversions with StarOffice. We even use some pretty sophisticated macros 
for document templates (law practice), and still no conversion problems.

Sean