[NTLUG:Discuss] OpenOffice - winword formatting error issues

[Ralph Green, Jr]

Howdy,
  If you have this concern, I suggest you look at TextMaker.  It is a
Linux/FreeBSD word processor that is the most compatible one I have
found.  I regularly exchange documents with Microsoft Word users. 
Before TextMaker, I would get complaints about why I had changed the
format of the document.  With TextMaker, they don't see any difference. 
There is a slightly reduced version of TextMaker bundled wth SuSE 9.1
that should be good to try.  There is a demo version available for
download, but it is pretty useless. The down-loadable version of
TextMaker won't write .doc files.
 I have not gotten any documents in the new MS XML format.  I seem to
recall they claimed a patent on some concept in they format and are
trying to keep it closed.  So, those might be a problem.
  One last comment.  If you are just sending a file to a MS word user
and you don't want to have to explain .rtf format, which I also use
normally, just save the document as an html file.  rename it to .doc and
MS word will open it and the user will never notice.  I was surprise the
first time I saw this, but it works.
Good luck,
Ralph


On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 02:46, terry wrote:
> Mark Gross wrote:
> 
>  >>I'm not concerned about what I may have to correct under OO.The 
>  >>concern is that when I send a document to a MS user, they have to