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YGK: Good thing, too, since there have been several times over the last few years when MSOffice totally b0rk3d a document that a group was working on, to the extent that trying to open it in MSOffice caused MSWord to crash. Load into OO.o, no prob, save out, it's a fraction of the size, and it reads in to MSOffice just fine -- indistinguishable from the last good copy and complete with change history etc.

Are you speaking from actual experience or wishful thinking? If Open Office can't handle the two simple documents with which I tested it (and it can't), I have trouble believing it can handle anything.

Experience. The descendants of those trashed files are now published standards.

I can't speak to your installation and font-compatibility issues; I certainly have had my own less-than-happy experiences with OO.o, but it's far from being the cripple that some here would pretend.

Do please recall, however, that just because a browser can render an HTML file doesn't mean that a word processor should -- horses for courses.

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