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Roland Smith writes:

>  OpenOffice, koffice and Abiword can handle word docs, IIRC.

	It was my understanding that while OpenOffice tries to be 100%
compatible with MS Word ... the more esoteric the feature you want,
the less likely it is to be exactly the same (or possibly exist at
all).


					Robert Huff