Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

[Ryan]

I've been somewhat disappointed with the quality of the conversion of Office documents into native *nix documents by most of the decent GUI apps (Kword, Staroffice, Openoffice, etc.).

Is everyone with me on this? It's a current barrier holding me back from a complete dump of everything M$, and I know each new version of the MS Office data formats incorporates an even more closed, corrupted, arcane (and unstable!) system to prevent easy translation.

I'm sure M$ doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of Samba, but if RedHat really wants to take over the desktop market share, isn't decent document import one of the first requirements in a sea of nonstop incoming .doc's on email (another issue)?

If anyone's found an import that can handle all the highly used features in MS Word properly (tables, numbering, footnotes, and redline are a start), I'd certainly like to be corrected on my appraisal of the problem!

Of course, I don't intend to launch the "why import when you can use open source?" question, because most people don't have a choice: M$ documents are (sadly) not yet extinct. But maybe a good import filter could help keep their population under control until the old monopoly fades away.

Ryan



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