[KLUG Members] OO & WD2K+3?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> >> <snip />
> >> My solution was to have the story re-edited on a "normal" application,
> >> and save over the original b0rked word-saved RTF file.
> > What do you mean be a "normal application"?
> anything that isn't word, and actually handles RTF files in a decent 

But OOo claims to be M$-Office compatible.  Therefore it should open the file 
correctly.  M$-Office may "suck", but this would be a problem with OOo.

> way.  Here at the newspaper, it's critical to have things that Just 
> Work (tm) as we don't have time to monkey around with crap from M$ 
> word.

This is a pretty normal policy for publications,  but in that case you exert 
control over your submitters - this doesn't work 'in the wild'.