Singh wrote: > Michelle herbert wrote: > > >> I am going to take an on line course and they say that I will need to have >> access to Microsoft Office 3. Can I use openoffice in place of the >> Microsoft 3? Will others be able to open the documents that I create? >> >> Thanks in Advance! >> > > Assuming you meant MS office 2003 (which I also use for final corrections in > a VM), yes, you could use openoffice. However, I have found in practice > that formatting almost always breaks between Openoffice doc and MS Office > doc. This problem becomes more acute when figures and other floats get > involved. > >
You can download a free Word viewer from MS, to verify how a Writer document will look. Some versions also work in Wine on Linux. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
