[PLUG] More OO.o Writer Faults

[Michael Robinson]

> I now think of OO.org as a handy viewer of MS Office formatted
> documents, but if I actually have to produce one I fire up a Win XP vm
> that does nothing but run Office.
> 
> --Rogan
> 
> >
> > Most of the documents I send are a one-way communication, meaning the
> > recipient is not expected to make any changes, and so I use PDF in
> > almost every case.  Only when I am asked for a DOC format do I send
> > one.
> >
> > Larry
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I find that crossover Linux standard runs MS Office 2003 
student teacher edition nicely on CentOS 5.  Apparently,
the current version of Quicken works with the latest 
version of crossover Linux standard as well.

It is discouraging that documents produced using OO 
render differently under MS Word, but I guess it 
should be no surprise that this is the case.

Just thought I'd point out that crossover Linux is a 
potentially cheaper route to go than running XP under 
emulation and it is faster to boot.

Another approach, if you can do this, is to give your 
customer the word processed document in openoffice format 
with printed instructions on where to get openoffice.  Of 
course you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make 
it drink ;-)  I tried this in college and didn't get 
anywhere.