On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 21:40, Terry Collins wrote:
> Anyway, does Open Office read Word Perfect files? > If so, which ones? i.e. all dos, windows and linux versions? http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/1.1press_releaseb.html Quote: WordPerfect & LaTeX Conversion Tools A WordPerfect filter application, developed by William Lachance and Marc Maurer, is now available to assist users migrating from WordPerfect to OpenOffice.org or Sun's StarOffice. An OpenOffice.org Writer-to-Latex conversion tool, developed by Henrik Just, is now available to allow users to produce pre-production output. Combined, these two tools (available as applications separate from OpenOffice.org1.1) serve to position the OpenOffice.org and Sun StarOffice wordprocessors as a premier tool for cross platform document processing. > Do you know of any legal people (like secretaries) using Open Office for > legal stuff? That would be a good test of non-mickey mouse stuff. I have > a few substantial books that need converting. Everything else is > mickey-mouse compared to them. Well PJ (groklaw.net). OpenOffice.org and StarOffice are making fairly large inroads. I regularly import and export word files without any issues. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
