29 Sep
2005
29 Sep
'05
10:23 a.m.
On Thu, 2005-29-09 at 22:50 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 14:26 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
When I use OpenOffice, and want to save something that I created using MS Office, I find that it frequently wants to warn me that I may be losing some special features. For this reason, I have abandoned using OO for editing stuff created with MSO.
I don't know enough about these things to know whether anything in the files are actually at risk, but rather than lose them, I re-boot to Windows and do the editing there.
Do a test... Usually, the warnings about things like how some document formats mightn't support some styling effects, might not do tabs or margins in the same way, etc.
Precisely why a standard format was needed.