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

[Derek Broughton]

Scott Kitterman wrote:

> On Thursday 19 October 2006 16:22, Derek Broughton wrote:

>> 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
>>
> I use OO writer almost exclusively when I am developing a document, but
> unless the document has only very simple formatting I pull it up in Word
> before
> e-mailing it to the customer.  I also sometimes get documents that won't
> open in OO writer.
> 
> Word is certainly not perfect, but it is a defacto standard many of us
> have to
> deal with.  I have started, with some of my more clueful customers, to
> send dcouments in both .doc and .odt format.

I don't disagree - I simply wouldn't let somebody force me to only use Word,
because my experience is that interchange of documents has just as much
trouble between Word users as between OO & Word users.  otoh, when in this
office I use Word because it's a darn sight faster than OO.
-- 
derek