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Re: [LUG] Running Word under VirtualBox 4.3.10

 

On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 16:02 +0000, Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi Phil and Bad
> 
> Thanks for the replies. The wine and office option is a good one. I
> wish I could mandate use of odf/doc format. I work with an
> organisation who has deemed that it is not possible to open a document
> saved via open office or libre office. They are heavy handed and I was
> hoping to avoid some sort of battle with them. I might decide that the
> battle needs to take place!
> 
> Thanks for all the help.
> 
> On 26 March 2014 14:59, Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 26 March 2014 14:36, Richard Brown <wildwoodslosty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> The lot I work for who claim that they cannot documents saved by Libre or
> >> Open Office.
> >
> > You can choose to Save As... in Word format at any time, or configure
> > the prefs to always read, write and create in Word format. As you
> > might imagine, this is a very common scenario.
> >
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I had  recent dilemma with a Proof Reader who, after moving to Linux and
using Libre Office hit a brick wall with RTF files. I thought any WP
would edit these but they are fundamentally MS. Formatting is lost in
Libre, so we had to resort to Wine. 
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