RE: MS Word docs to OpenOffice: a summary

["Steve Hudson" <cruddy -at- optushome -dot- com -dot- au>]

<Quietly notes that not only one can import and convert to a local std (map)
fairly easily but one has done so many times and is tossing some like ideas
around at the moment for three systems into Word>.

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-----Original Message-----
From: David_Slonosky -at- i2 -dot- com

Can macros ever convert? Are VBA and its incarnations copyrighted by
Microsoft, or are they available for anyone to implement?

I imagine you could implement your own OpenOffice macro language and then
try to map to it from Office files, but that would be a scary undertaking.




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