Singh wrote:
Adrian Try wrote:
Possibly true, but I am hoping it isn't, because I am at my wits end
about
this problem of interconversion. If Microsoft made a version for Linux,
this would not be an issue, but its pointless to expect those thugs to do
that.
An option that may be worth considering is to run Microsoft Office on
Linux under Crossover Office, which is a commercial version of Wine. I
have heard that it works very well, but haven't tried it myself.
I did mention that I considered Crossover office, but the reports on
Microsoft Word 2003 (which is the version I have a license for and most of
my colleagues have) are mixed. Not exactly a vote of confidence in the
product for my purposes.
I don't know how many different versions of Office/Word you have tried
but we have the same issue of moving documents between different
versions of Word as we do with OOo.
Hopefully, I will get my copy early next week and post my experiences
here.
Things would be so much simpler if ODF was the de facto standard, but ...
That's the real issue - proprietry formats tend to tie you to one company,
while open standards give power to the customer - the power of choice.
Except most of us are tied to a proprietary format because nearly everyone
else uses that.
I can't reform a few thousands of my colleagues, hence the problem :)
One at a time. :) I deal with the same issue where I work. Heck, many
are moving to LaTeX instead of OOo due to problems with Word.
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