Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:41:54PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
> Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience
> using wine or crossover office with MSWord? Does it work? If it is
> possible to produce true, well-formatted .doc files this way then it
> will definitely be an improvement over hunting down a computer running
> Word under MSWindows to check my submissions. But it needs to be
> completely identical to regular Word - if I have to check the
> crossover/wine Word version with native Word I won't have saved any
> time. Is this possible? Any other suggestions regarding producing true
> .doc formats without resorting to installing Windows would be welcome,
> but in this case OpenOffice is definitely not good enough. It's great,
> of course, but not when it comes to exchanging .doc files with
> critical formatting intact.
>
Do the people to whom you send the word docs have to edit them? If not,
what about sending pdf? I never send anyone a doc file, and I've never
used OpenOffice; I just make a pdf from LaTex. Just lucky, I guess.
Doug.
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