On Thu, 2005-29-09 at 22:50 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 14:26 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > When I use OpenOffice, and want to save something that I created using > > MS Office, I find that it frequently wants to warn me that > > I may be losing some special features. For this reason, > > I have abandoned using OO for editing stuff created with MSO. > > > > I don't know enough about these things to know whether anything > > in the files are actually at risk, but rather than lose them, > > I re-boot to Windows and do the editing there. > > Do a test... Usually, the warnings about things like how some document > formats mightn't support some styling effects, might not do tabs or > margins in the same way, etc. > Precisely why a standard format was needed.
