Hi,
My wife has a small PR-company and exchanges many documents with her
customers. 99.99% of the documents she receives are in MS-Word format.

We both share the opinion that all those 'smart' functions and wizards
are only a nuissance and as soon as I can find a Linux word-editor that
is able to read and write MS-Word, she wants to change to Linux.

I therefore have the following questions:
-    are there any legal objections to writing a MS-Word export filter
or is it just a too difficult task?
-    Which alternative would you suggest in this case? Should I use
VMware and MS-Word in those cases were MS-wordformat is required or
should I use another export-filter (which)?

Thanks,
Ben Engbers