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

[Derek Broughton]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:

> 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

Frankly, it shouldn't be too difficult to "interfere" with them :-)  It's
hardly fair to blame it on OO.  ime, it's impossible to use Word for
collaborative projects, because it won't even let two Word users edit a
file without overriding someone's preferred formatting along the way (e.g.,
today, my office-mate was writing minutes for a meeting, using the previous
meeting's minutes as a template.  The "attendee" list had been formatted in
two columns - whenever he tried to change any name in the list, it reverted
to a single column).

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derek