I happen to have crossover office. I found that with PowerPoint, I could escape out of a presentation, and return back to the last slide I was using. (Although it's simple to do a task switch). The one thing that would prompt me to buy SO 6.0 is if it converts to PowerPoint properly. One example of a screwed up document from Open Office is to create a set of labels (in my case Avery 5126 diskette). When I saved them with OpenOffice and used MS Word (2000). All the formatting was gone. I simply read the document into Star Office 5.2 and saved it, and then read it with MS Word, and the formatting was preserved. BTW: Cutting and Pasting into Star Office and Open Office is much better than Cutting and Pasting into MS Office via Crossover Office. On 30 Jul 2002 at 13:36, Zach Smith wrote:
The question is has anyone used Star Office 6.0, and saved PowerPoint or Word documents correctly.
I can't speak for PowerPoint but the documents saved in Word format are pretty near perfect. I say "pretty near" because there have been a couple of very minor quirks pop up, mainly, the apostrophe formatting (Word docs imported into SO don't seem to recognize the curly apostrophe) and the spell checker/thesaurus is kinda lame. As for the latter, I use the Dictionary applet that works very well with SO (or just about any application for that matter). Star Office 6.0 is definitely worth a hard look when trying to find a Linux equal to MS Office. The only other suggestion I have is to take a peek at CodeWeavers CrossOver Office. I haven't had any experience with it but the reviews have been quite favorable. --
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