Dear Mike and friends:
Good question!
I have been using StarOffice in for a long time. I do most of my serious
work in it and mainly, as you so well point out, because of its superlative
importing/exporting of MSWord documents.
The answer as to why I would want Word97 is equally clear:
There are always little, minor, irritating discrepancies between a Word97
document and its conversion in StarOffice (and vice-versa). I have Word97 on
a separate computer (and on this dual-boot), but I am tired of having to
continually go back and forth just to compare the two versions (or print out
the text). The differences may be minor, but such minor flaws (in formatting,
etc.) are unacceptable, from a professional standpoint, in our computer age.
That's all there is to it. I figure that if Word97 works in Linux, why not
add it and either use it as my main word processor or as a backup.
By the way, I really like Kwrite and hopefully when it has a much wider range
of filters (and of high quality), it may replace StarOffice for most ordinary
writing projects.
Thanks again.
Benjamin
> ================================
> Just curious, Benjamin;
> Why do you WANT to run Word via Wine?? I've NEVER come across a Word
> document I haven't been able to handle in SO 5.x. Students have e-mailed
> me papers as Word attachments; I've edited them in SO, saved as Word doc,
> and sent it back as an attachment with no problems what-so-ever. I suppose
> there must be some cases where that's not possible, I've just never,
> personally, encountered such a situation.
> Mike
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