Hi Robin
I am glad you are having such good luck with OO.
A couple of days ago I installed SO 5.1 on 2 of my computers - my new notebook
and my RH 7.3 box. Now I admit I am no wiz at typing at 5 to 8 wpm and that I
screw a lot of things up as I do them but it took me over an hour to convert
a html file generated on the Linux box by copying and pasting a web site to a
MS file. My reason for doing this were 1) to find out how difficult this file
would be to convert and 2) to see if there was any difference in the problems
associated with this file and similar files I had worked with in OO.
The good news is it did convert - well sort of - and the bad news is it is too
much of a pain to do regularly. Also you may want to consider that it was
much easer to edit tables in MS Office XP than in SO 5.1
Please note that the version of SO 5.1 I am running is 2 years old and the
version of OO is at least 1 year old. So that leads to the question are you
using later versions?
Thanks
Frank
On Friday 26 July 2002 17:26, robin wrote:
>
> I'm looking at galley proofs of a book I wrote mostly in OO (the rest in
> SO 6.0) that was edited by people using recent versions of MS Office
> (both Windows and Mac) without any problems. Some of the chapters went
> through three or four rounds of back-and-forth editing, and one had 12
> illustrations in it. Chapter lengths varied between 20 and 70 pages.
>
> We had no problems whatsoever.
>
> - Robin
>
> > My humble experience is that if you save a OO file with more than one
> > page at a level above MS 95 then MS Office will not read it.
> > Thanks
> > Frank
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