MS office 2000

[Brian Ecker]

StarOffice is often better at reading MS Office files than MS Office is.
I know a number of people who routinely use StarOffice as a "filter" to
recover their corrupted MS Office files (ones which MS Office tags as
"unreadable").

	-bri


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Warren Togami wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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