On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:32:29 -0800 Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| 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). StarOffice 6 beta is supposed to do Office 2000/xp. That and loosing its desktop are the main new features, as far as I can see. -- ===================================================================== Roger Oberholtzer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OPQ Systems AB WWW: http://www.opq.se Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 115 32 Stockholm Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 Sweden Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
