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Subject:Wanted: complex MS Word documents From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 09 May 2002 10:11:19 -0300
Would anybody on the list be willing to send me some complex files in
.doc format? I'm looking for two or three files, each full of tables,
numbered lists, fields, diagrams, macros, annotations and/or anything
else that can cause problems when exporting to a different file format.
I need these files because I'm putting OpenOffice through its paces.
OpenOffice, for those who don't know, is the free software version of
StarOffice, and has just released version 1.0. One of the features in
both OpenOffice and StarOffice are some very strong export filters for
MS Word. I'm trying to see how strong.
Unfortunately, I don't work much in Windows these days, and, when I do,
I mostly use FrameMaker, so I simply don't have tye types of documents
that I need.
I'll post the results of my experiments on the list. If I do anything
else with the results, I'll acknowledge those who helped.
My thanks in advance for any help.
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