[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Micro$oft is killing small town budgets- no mention of analternative?

[Steve Baker]

Fred James wrote:
> 
> I try to open such documents in StarOffice52 - if that doesn't work, I
> just assume the document isn't important (same for MS specific web sites).

Well, yes - and some Word docs come out OK in WordPerfect.  You can also
get a quick idea of what something's about by running it through the
command-line catdoc filter.

However, that's not really the point - I also get documents in Excel and
Powerpoint formats - same problem.

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