On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 07:55:35PM -0600, Michael Hipp wrote: >Good summary, Joel. Do you have a copy of OpenOffice handy to try also? > >Joel Hammer pontificated eloquently: >> We got at memo a work today, a 300 word memo in Word that was 45 KB >> long. It has a small corporate logo on it. I decided to experiment. >> Using Word97, I saved it in four formats, DOC, HTM, RFT, and TXT, with >> the following file sizes: >[big snip] > >Michael >Microsoft Windows XP: Just say no.
Yup. My wife brought home a couple of .xls files last night that she couldn't read on any of the machines at $herjob or on her Windows machine. I tried with StarOffice, NeXS, and Applixware, none of which could handle it. My conclusion was that it had to come from Office XP (strings did a pretty decent of extracting things that could be imported into something useful). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ A paranoid is a man who knows a little of what's going on. -- William S. Burroughs _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
