Henry T Wijaya wrote: > 3) Which particular office program that m$ office 2k is most compatible > with? Previous message, someone mentioned that Sun's StarOffice isn't > that good after all (I'm being generic here since I don't know the > details about it).
I use Sun's SO to read in MS Word files and convert them. It is pretty good. Why I say pretty good is that it is not perfect and you will not find any office suite that is perfect at converting all word files, especially newer ones. The reason for that is that the format of MS Word files must be 'reverse engineered' by those writing the conversion routines for OpenOffice, Star Office, Abi word, Word Perfect etc. Yes even Word Perfect Corporation and Corell after the took it over weere not privy to the format of MS Word files. The short of it is then that attributes like bold, italic etc, basic formatting and simple basic tables and figures will come out of the conversion fine. But a complex document will get stuffed up and rerarranged to some degree. Generally SO is a good office suite for those that like office suites (unlike me) Mike LaTeX RULES :-) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. -------------------------------------------------------------------- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ===================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ===================================================================== -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
