MS office 2000

[Warren Togami]

StarOffice 5.2 has excellent MS Office file compatibility with .DOC, .XLS
and .PPT (Word, Excel, Powerpoint w/o some types of embedded objects).
OpenOffice 6.0 alpha test builds have nearly perfect compatibility.  Most
normal documents have no problem opening or saving in MS Office format.

StarOffice 5.2
http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html

OpenOffice 6.0 - alpha test builds
http://www.openoffice.org/

OpenOffice will eventually be released as StarOffice 6.0 later this year.
This will be an exciting release for the open source community.
Just think:
99.99% Microsoft Office file compatibility
Equation Editor (not included in MS Office)
Full Chinese, Japanese, Korean input support
Free

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nelson Garcia" <garcian002 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: MS office 2000


> I haven't tried kword yet but you might want to play with AbiWord.  I know
> that it can read Word '97 files.  I don't know if it can create them yet.
> You could also try saving the file in RTF format instead of Word format.
>
> AbiWord looks and feels a lot like MS Word.  Heck, my kids have used it
and
> didn't even notice the difference.
>
> Cheers,
> Nelson