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Pete Hardie wrote:
> Marvin Dickens wrote:
> 
>> On Monday 05 April 2004 09:59, Dow Hurst wrote:
>>
>>
>>>  I have found for complex documents/posters or documents with
>>> special fonts and formatting that OOo will not open or save as
>>> MSWord/Powerpoint correctly. Most of the time I can open up the 
>>> document or
>>> poster to get the info I need, but if I have to modify and resend back,
>>> then I just revert to MSoffice under CXoffice. 
>>
>>
>>
>> All of the MS Word/Powerpoint power users that I know that use 
>> Word/Powerpoint for business purposes won't switch to SO or OO for the 
>> reasons you described above: Complex files generated in MS Word and 
>> Powerpoint are  mangled when
>> displayed in OO and SO.
>>
>> All of these same people tell me if OO or SO fixed this they would 
>> leave the MS platform like rats jumping from a sinking ship.
> 
> 
> I have to ask - what are they doing that is so complex in 
> *PowerPoint*???  All the complexity I've ever seen is eye candy - OO 
> does backgrounds, object positioning, and scripting as well as PP.
> 
> 
> 

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