[lbo-talk] Open Office v. MS Office

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:
> I've noticed that Wordpad works to display MS Word documents and allows
> edits and saving. Most business text isn't long enough to exceed Wordpad
> limits.

Save and load as RTF (Rich text format) and avoid the issue of
Microsoft "standards" entirely.

OpenOffice is good enough for me. But it only takes one small display
or table formatting glitch to get every MS Office user into bitching
mode and at that point his/her brain shuts out and I´ll be damned
forever for even suggesting the use of OpenOffice.

FC