"Chang, FKK" wrote: > > Hello all, > > All the ranting about Corel's misleading strategies aside, before I download > it (paying by the minute, you know), I'd like to know: > > 1) does it load Word 95 (or 97) docs *correctly* ?
I would say 95% of the time I have a perfect copy of the word document, even 97. > 2) does it write these *correctly* ? I have had no problems so far. I have edited documents and passed them to lesser informed collegues who still use M$ and none of them complained. I have also created documents in wordperfect format and then coverted them to 97 and thoes documents also worked with my collegues. One thing I dont like is the way it generates web pages, but this could be just a matter of configuration. It seems to put in an extra blank line as every other line in the page. > 3) can it cope with "fastsave" docs *correctly*? Yes, all the fastsave docs I have tried have had no problems. The only problem I have had is with master documents. These are not handled at all by the looks of things. > With `correctly', I mean "does it also understand some done-by-myself > meddling with normal.dot and strange objects like embedded .bmps > in such a fashion that what comes out of the printer does > look in some way like what I see on the screen etc, etc, ..." > (I had *quite* some problems in StarOffice with this) I would be surprised if wp8 (or even word 2000) would be able to handle this type of user input !! > I don't need the equation editor (LaTeX is my friend), but I'm perfectly > willing to sacrifice some megs on my HD for not having to reboot to NT > to read silly Word attachments to my e-mails... You could always encourage your friends to send you rich text format instead of word documents. If there was any understanding and control over a commond document standard then we would not have these problems... > Has someone encountered/discovered anything? I do actually like word perfect, it does have some nice features over word. I am actually tempted to buy the CD (especially as it is only $50) even if I have to still use word once every blue moon. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."
