Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had to use rtf to get from office 2002 on one machine to another using office 97. Hay it worked and the document is in the post to many people.
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Here's something relevant I think...adresses some of Nick's concerns... > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-08-21-005-2 > 6-NW-BZ-DT&tbovrmode=1#talkback_area > > Nick Rout wrote: > >>Here here, it PISSES me off that Linux isn't really taken seriously on > > >>the desktop as I happily use it everyday. > > > > > > > > The answer is, IMHO, twofold. > > > > 1. legacy business data - the main one being ms word documents. Do > not > > try and sell me linux or open source word processors that will open > > complex word documents 100% correct every time. It does not happen. I > > have 171MB legacy word docs that I may want to use at any time,thats > > right goddamn now, not once I have fiddled around for twenty minutes > > resetting stuff or finding where the headers & footers & para > numbereing went. > > > > 2 closely allied, training. The average secretary/wp operator etc is > not > > as adept at change as a geek who likes to fiddle and is prepared to > play > > with some software for hours playing with the features, finding how > it > > works etc. I don't have time to train my secretary on openoffice or > > retrain her on word perfect (she probably last used 5.1). Put most > > office workers in fronnt of a new program and they spin out. > > > > Now theres a lot happening to the desktop and its better every day. > But > > Neal's article was about what is REALLY happening in business out > there > > NOW. What is really happening in businesses is services - mail, file, > > print, database. It is a positive spin for linux so I wonder why it > is > > getting bashed?? > > > > P.S If I was setting up my own business now I probably would go for > > star/open office on linux, but now its too hard to change. > > -- > > Nick Rout > > Barrister & Solicitor > > Christchurch, NZ > > Ph +64 3 3798966 > > Fax + 64 3 3798853 > > http://www.rout.co.nz > > > >
