- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 02:30:08 +0100 (CET)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 12 Feb, John Foliot - WATS.ca wrote: > Check out Open Office (www.openoffice.org). This *free* suite can open MS > Word docs, and is available for the following platforms: Whilst I am both a user of, and an advocate for, the OpenOffice suite, I'm afraid the above is only partially true. The OpenOffice suit *can* open MS Office documents. However, it can't open *all* Word documents. It can also write Word documents, but MS Word can't always read them. Of course, *MS Word* can't always open MS Word documents, or read documents created with other MS Word versions ... It's a bit of a mess, really. I've had clients who could not open their one month old Word documents with a new version of Word. I'd claim that the Sec 508 violation's death is grossly exaggerated. Distributing a Word document means, basically, that whether or not you've got OpenOffice -or- MS Office opening it is uncertain. -- - Tina Holmboe Greytower Technologies tina@greytower.net http://www.greytower.net/ [+46] 0708 557 905
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