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From: Martin Barclay
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:41
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:41
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:27:30 +0000, Huge wrote: > On 2018-04-22, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: >> In article <fk45t5...@mid.individual.net>, Huge >> <use...@huge.org.uk> wrote: >>>> Microsoft are not idiots. If they thought there was a market for >>>> Office on linux they would port it to linux. >>> >>>No need. I interoperated with an office full of MS weenies for years >>>using LibreOffice and no-one ever noticed. >> >> You were lucky. I have done a lot of work that involves sending Word >> docs back and forth and Libreoffice is hopeless if the docs use anything >> beyond the simplest formatting features. > > I fear this isn't true. It isn't true. > I deliberately sought out complicated documents > and had no problems with them whatsosever. Indeed, I had fewer problems > with LO than interoperating between different versions of Office. And > writing technical standards was a big part of my job. I've changed my accountant's company over to LO, & they said it works just fine. No problems at all. They ditched MSO.
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