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Subject: Re: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration) 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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I am pretty sure that StarOffice can read word documents but not
word documents from Office97.

	Cheers,
	Amancio


>From The Desk Of Greg Lehey :
> Luigi Rizzo writes:
> >>
> >> Save yourself some money, and start with (shudder)
> >> 	http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/
> >
> > too bad they only have MS Word documents (what would you expect!)
> 
> Has anybody investigated what it would take to convert MS Word to a
> portable format?  So much stuff is sent in it nowadays, even by people
> who should know better.  Is it that difficult?  If somebody can point
> me to some format documentation, I'm prepared to have a hack at it.
> 
> Greg
> 
>