[geeks] And The Linux Weenies Wonder Why They Aren't Mainstream...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>Date: Tue Feb 28 21:17:11 CST 2006
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] And The Linux Weenies Wonder Why They Aren't Mainstream...

>On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
>
>> It can in fact open almost all the Office documents I have received in
>> the course of my consulting business, from multiple clients,
>
>I guess I'm just lucky. I've gotten two or three documents in the last 4
>years that opened properly in StarOffice/OpenOffice.  The rest that I
>tried to open (probably 20 or 30) were either so poorly mis-re-formatted
>that they were useless or crashed StarOffice/OpenOffice.

Don't discount "EBKAC"[0] - I've seen some marvelously fsck'd formatting in Word documents - my personal favorite is when you mix autonumbered bullets with manually numbers bullets, as soon as you add another bullet, the whole thing falls apart...

[0] Error Between Keyboard And Chair