RE: Help! Corrupted Word file(?)

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

> From: arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com

> Is Star Office free? I'm not sure it'll maintain the styles 
> and formatting any better than opening in Open Office. (For 
> example, OOW ruins Index marks.)

Well, StarOffice was free, now, I guess, Sun sells it, but it was made by
the group that makes OpenOffice, or something like that.  I have the old
free copy on an old machine and it was StarOffice then, but it's Sun's baby
and I don't follow the funny pages well enough to know what is going on with
that.

StarOffice maintain styles to some extent and could save a workable document
from a vexed (hexed, perhaps?) document that required some editing, but it
wasn't as bad as trying to rebuild from text or nothing.  StarOffice saved
me on many occasions.

Lauren


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