[plug] [OT] Office XP 30 day evil

[russ powers]

Why not use OO to generate a pdf from your resume and
send that. Everybody has acrobat reader.


--- Jason Smith <jhs_bkk at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> On Friday 21 March 2003 12:10 am, Quintin Lette
> wrote:
> > After the amount of people complaining about how
> bad the formatting of
> > my resume looks in MSO after creating it in SO 6.0
> I'm starting to
> > understand why people would choose MSO. 
> Formatting basically went out
> > the Window, not to mention macros from Excel
> spreadsheets often not
> > working...
> 
> Agreed.  I'm OOo's biggest fan, but I calls 'em like
> I sees 'em.  The 
> alternative office products don't work with MS
> products quite well enough 
> yet.  Sad, but true.  I think it's a bit dangerous
> to advocate open 
> source products as viable when they're not quite
> ready.  We wouldn't want 
> to let the world down, after all.
> 
> Sure.  I think that Microsoft's actions WRT office
> formats are right up 
> there with extortion; but that doesn't mean that OOo
> works with them yet.
> 
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