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Bernd Felsche wrote:<br>
SNIP<br>
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<pre wrap="">As one of the other followups suggested, I reckon the best approach
*would* be to use Lotus' "export-to-Excel/Word" functionality, but
don't do it manually.
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Such are the issues with saving critical data in closed formats.</pre>
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Yes, but IBM have been promising Lotus 123 and Wordpro for Linux for
many years now. It was one of the main reasons for staying with it. As
I have said before Lotus and Wordpro are way ahead of Excel and Word.
OpenOffice might be as good as the MS counterparts, but that still
leaves them behind the other two.<br>
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With IBM promising a Linux version, why would you want to change. Now,
that it appears after some 5-7 years, that it isn't going to eventuate,
the time has now come to make the move anyway.<br>
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Such is life.<br>
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Alex<br>
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