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Story: Alternatives to Microsoft Office

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There's a comment in the document about StarOffice 7.0
having poor support for Microsoft Office formats. That's a bunch of hooey, and I think we could all benefit from the writer's research on this issue. Personally, I have never had ANY trouble using StarOffice 7.0 to both open Word/Excel files and even to save them. I just completed a project using Microsoft Publisher in which StarOffice 7.0 documents were seemlessly imported into Publisher after being saved in doc format. Likewise, documents sent to me in doc format by users of different MS Office versions were imported into StarOffice without any trouble at all. Many other reviews have highlighted the fact that StarOffice is able to read and save in MS formats with almost 90% accuracy. That's anything but "poor". Even more telling for me is the fact that I couldn't open a document I received in MS Office 2003 format using my personal copy of MS Office 2000 but I COULD open the 2003 doc using Star Office 7.0. This is all anecdotal, to be sure, but it speaks to the author's contention that a problem exists when she's flatly mistaken.

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