[plug] [OT] Office XP 30 day evil

[William Kenworthy]

Actually, I dont think its unfair to expect a word filter to import and
save a word document EXACRLY as word does, misformatted or not. 
However, the practicality of doing this is accurately is extreemly
difficult.

BillK

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 11:43, J Michael Gilks wrote:

> The number one problem I have noticed is badly formatted word documents.
> ie blank lines to get a new page, images anchored to the page rather than text 
> with wrapping turned on and blank lines behind them. Subtle mistakes anyone 
> who didn't know what they were doing could make.8=)
> OO.o can't do anything about the blank lines, but when saving the document to 
> OO.o format it seems to make intelligent decisions about image placement and 
> generally puts them back where they should be.
> In short' it may be a little unfair to blame OO.o for operator shortcomings. I 
> have found it very enlightening to turn on formatting characters when looking 

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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>