Actually, I have seen documents that had features only in Office 97
(OK, 1 non-VB, one VB - although that's a good reason not to use
it). However, if everyone would use TeX formats, the problem would
be solved (or agree on the parsing / display of RTF formats).
On
Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
> In a message dated: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 12:13:01 EDT
> Jeffry Smith said:
>
> >Well, I use both.
>
> Me too. In general, Applixware seems to do a much better job of importing MS
> Word files than SO does (5.0 is *much* better than the beta!)
>
> >Disadvantages: doesn't write to MS formats (reads from them, writes
> >to standard formats that MS reads like RTF).
>
> This just isn't true!
>
> I don't know how many times I have to state this on this list. Applixware
> exports to MS Word 2.0! Any version of MS Word > 2.0 can read this format.
> What more do you need? I can not think of, nor has anyone yet been able to
> present me with, a valid reason why anyone who doesn't normally use MS Office
> needs to export to any newer version of of an MS Word format.
>
> Additionally, Applixware can export to various WordPerfect formats, something
> which I don't believe SO can do. ( I would expect it can read them too, but I
> haven't tried this yet).
>
Actually, I haven't tried this, since I quit using WP on my Linux box.
Hm. I may have to reinstall it just to check out the compatibility.
jeff
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