Fw: [discuss] MS Word filter not yet fully compatible with MS Word (and I love that!)

[Warren Togami]

A bit of humor from the OpenOffice discussion list.  =)

----- Original Message -----
From: "K.Scott Carr" <scottcarr at telocity.com>
To: <discuss at openoffice.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [discuss] MS Word filter not yet fully compatible with MS Word
(and I love that!)


> At 10:45 AM 7/8/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I just wanted to let you know what happened to me a couple of days ago.
> >
> >I had to deliver a report by friday, 17.00, so, on the monday before
that, I
> >was working until 4am on that (in Word 97), after which the draft version
was
> >finished. I send a PDF-version to my two colleagues for review. It was
only on
> >that friday, that I spoke to them about it, and they had a couple of
things to
> >improve. So I started up Word on my laptop, and opened that report, and
Word
> >showed me the first page of it (which is - of course - correct). However,
I
> >couldn't scroll down, press any button or what ever - the machine hanged.
> >"Can happen," I thought, "it's Win 95, so a reboot should do miracles."
Nope.
> >I tried it on 3 other machines, different Windows versions (including Win
2K),
> >but it was all the same. So there I was: I needed to deliver a report
within
> >6 hours but first I needed to change a couple of things about it, only,
Word
> >wouldn't let me edit it.
> >
> >Lucky, I also had SO 5.2 in Linux on my laptop, so I tried to open it
there,
> >and it did open it, and almost nothing about the markup was lost. And
within
> >2 hours, the whole document was finished and send to the man who needed
it.
> >
> >Thanks a lot for being not compatible with Word 97 ;-)
> >
> >Admar
> >
>
> This sounds like the makings of a testimonial page to me.  ;-)
>
> At work, the company has "Standardized" on Word.  The only problem is half
> is "Standardized" on Word 97 the other is "Standardized" on Word 2000.  We
> have noticed that if you create a doc in Word 97 with multiple level
lists,
> open the doc in Word 2000 and edit, then reopen in Word 97, Word 97 will
> hang and you'll have to kill the process.  It appears the Word is not even
> Word compatible.  LOL
>
> Have fun...
>
>
> Scott Carr
> OpenOffice.org
> Whiteboard-Documentation Project
> http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/doc/