3. Re: Installing MS Word with Wine (sdavmor)

[Eberhard Roloff]

Hi, 

Trevor Wiseman wrote:

> I have to ask WHY? OpenOffice Word Processing will do everything that Word
> can do and can read/write .doc files for free?  Maybe I'm missing
> something.  Good luck.

Yes it can do most of what MS word can do, but their still are compatibility
issues. Ex. I tried to work with OOOrg 2.01 within a group of 6 writers,
the other five were on word '03. We were tasked with making up a
documentation of a very large IT project that took about 500 pages, done
with very sophisticated word usage. I found it impossible to cleanly
interfere with this group using my OOorg and had to switch back to
the "standad word processor". So my personal conclusion from this: 
If anywhere there is a standard, you will have problems if it comes to more
than light or medium types of usage, no matter how good the substitute is.

kind regards
Eberhard