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------- Additional comments from jmich...@openoffice.org Sun May 16 22:27:15 +0000 2010 ------- I would like to add that I am in a quandry. I am being forced to buy ms office again because I have no assurance of backward compatibility with my Word 2003 documents. and I am in need of an OS rebuild. and I can't find my original MS Office package anywhere (May have accidentally donated it and all my system stuff). how many people have to go through this with their systems? or they have a used system and have to rebuild because of a virus or spyware? they, like I, want to keep their documents. but the only REAL answer to the problem of backward compatibility is to get Microsoft Office. it can read Office 2003 .doc files. Even when OpenOffice.org used to offer 2.4.3 on its ftp servers for 2003 compatibility, you had to choose between 3.2.0 for 2007 compatibility, or 2.4.3 for 2003 compatibility. you couldn't have both. that chaps my hide. and it forces me to go out and buy microsoft office, because 1. 2.4.3 is no longer available so I can read and edit my older 2003 documents 2. I still get new documents in 2007 format (.docx) all the time from the microsoft web site and I need to be able to read and print them 3. I can't install both 2.4.3 and 3.2.0 at the same time. 4. I have a complicated Excel 2003 spreadsheet that shares data between multiple sheets, which seem to break OpenOffice.org, at least in the past. it is my budget. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@xml.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@xml.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
