On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Bryan Anderson wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i'm flexible as to whether i run, as a guest OS, win2k or win xp, the > > main goal is to be running (ugh!) MS word -- sadly, openoffice won't > > quite do the job > > Can you tell me what you can't do in OpenOffice that you can do in Word? it's not a deficiency in OOo. i'm working on an internal network at a client site, and i need their internal DNS to allow me to access word documents via a share name. so i really need the entire windows environment surrounding the office suite. it was just easier to go the vmware route than try to hack around the internal network. rday