From koffice Wed Sep 26 21:34:50 2001 From: Garf Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 21:34:50 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: Exporting MS-Word? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=100154016018510 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 Sep 2001 4:13 pm, Ben Engbers wrote: > 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 [cough], You could try openoffice over at http://www.openoffice.org Version 638 is pretty stable and sorts Word docs out fine. - -- H&Ks Garf Get my key from http://www.keyserver.net/en/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7skn6Acw6J3g6L9wRAna/AKCOHQ9zr4uMv0Hq7FeKcnHlQevFUACg7T8b CeSXNR9WsoM7Ly3wH2mmSMw= =w99B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----