To Leon Re: [plug] Open Office in Local Government

[James Elliott]

Thanks Leon

I have passed that information on.

James Elliott
Ravensthorpe Computers
ABN 34 305 232 710
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon Brooks" <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Open Office in Local Government


> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:26, James Elliott wrote:
> > He had one question I could not answer: "Can you set Open Office Write
to
> > default to Word format when saving?".
>
> Yes.
>
> Also, other shires are quite free to fetch and install OpenOffice.org for
> themselves for free, anytime.
>
> Point out that OOo will sometimes read broken MSO documents which lock up
or
> kill Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
>
> Introduce them to Mozilla, particularly for the low-virus email client.
This
> is a `stealth' adoption tactic because if they're happy enough with OOo
and
> Mozilla, moving to Linux is going to be no great effort for most of them.
>
> Cheers; Leon
>
>
>