Re: MS Office problem

[Gordon <gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gordon wrote:

> Oldus Fartus wrote:
> 
>> Gordon wrote:
>>> JANA wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Have you tried Open Office from Sun Microsystems?  This one is
>>>> excellent, and in some ways it is better than the office program you
>>>> are trying to use. It does everything Office does, and more. It can
>>>> also export and import over 90% of the formats that Office can handle.
>>> 
>>> No, I'd say it will import MORE than MS Office will do. MS Office won't
>>> import any Lotus documents AT ALL......which is strange considering MS
>>> Office was launched as a DIRECT assault on Lotus Smartsuite......
>>> 
>> 
>> No it wasn't.   Lotus Smartsuite came out two years after the first
>> version of Office.   (MS Office 1989, Lotus Smartsuite V1 1991)
>> 
>> 
> OK then it was launched in direct assault on 123 and Amipro.
> 
And in fact I had a copy of Office 95 Update where in fact one of the
qualifying applications to use the update was one of the Lotus modules and
STILL it didn't import Lotus documents....talk about arrogant......

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Gordon Burgess-Parker
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