OT: Massachusetts Verdict: MS Office Formats Out

[Tim]

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.

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