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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
