Peter,
I will forward this as you have suggested.
I do believe, however, that the sponsors of OpenOffice would do well to remember how Microsoft succeeded in displacing WordPerfect as the market leader in word processing. Among other things, they made certain that users could import complex WordPerfect documents into Word with very little disruption in formatting. While OpenOffice 2.0 does a pretty good job in this respect, Word is so entrenched that I doubt that "close" is going to be good enough. I base this conclusion on many years experience as a corporate CIO (now retired) who saw repeatedly that software users were notoriously unwilling to give up the devil they knew in favor of one that was unfamiliar.
Bill
No argument. I have had to work on convining my wife, and her biggest gripe was that it, <cringe> didn't *look* like Word </cringe>.
The only way it is going to get better though is that when incompatibilities like this come up, people need to report them.
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