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From: Peter Flass
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:17
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:17
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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 wish Libre worked better, but it doesn't. > I must stick to simple, because I've never noticed any inconsistencies, and I've moved various documents back and forth a few times. Some companies got themselves into trouble because they tried to use a word processor or a spreadsheet as a general-purpose programming language, but that doing that kind of thing is like going around wearing a big "kick me" sign. -- Pete
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