Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Yes, perhaps she can use it, but what happens when she needs to prepare or use an Excel spreadsheet? Can she do that just as easily with OO, KSpread or Gnumeric? Are OO documents really MS Word compatable? I ran into that kind of problem when preparing my resume. I wrote my resume in XML and CSS, no flippin' html for me. But some employers insisted that it be delivered in MS Word. When I looked at the MS Word rendering of the resume produced by OO, (this was a while back) it really didn't look good.
I have used OO to read and write .doc & .xls files and have not had any issues. Also, OO v2 is even better than 1.x in this regard. If you're worried about how a file looks in Word, you can always install the MS Word Viewer in wine. Incidentally, if you have a bunch of old Word files, you might find that OO reads them better than the current MS Word. Perhaps everyone should be asking MS why they don't support an international standard. If they did, it wouldn't matter what app someone uses. Have you tried OO v2?