John, Open Office 3.0 (currently beta, scheduled for release in September) does know how to deal with M$ Office 07.
-- cheers Clarence > Well, since you are asking, I don't run Windows. I use Linux > exclusively on my desktop at work (Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise > Desktop 10.0) and at home OpenSuSE 10.2. > > I use VMWare Server in both locations to run Windows XP apps that > won't run in the Wine environment. > > I use OpenOffice.org for all of my office suite needs, and Evolution > for mail. The only issue that I've come across is that Word '07 > documents won't open in ooO, but I'm sure that soon someone will crack > open M$'s proprietary encoding, and bring us an import filter for that as > well. > > I'd say, give up on M$. Linux runs faster, lighter, and if you need > it, run Borg software in a VM...DON'T BE ASSIMILATED!!! <- reference > to STNG for you Trekkies out there. > > > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Gunnar Ekblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > For 2 days I have run my new laptop with vista on it. > I still > have a possibilty to go back to XP. > I also have instaled open office. > insted of MS-office > From an RBASE point of view vista is almost fine > (almost I say since my > national charcters åäö ÅÄÖ dont work in RBASE dos > version, never mind I dont > use dos version very much longer) > > > Question > Shall I revert back to XP? > Shall I stay with open office and > give up MS-Office? > > > > > > > > -- > John Croson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://pcnorb.blogspot.com/ > http://pcnorb.homelinux.org/ > > -- Clarence W. Robison, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 208-423-6610
