[techtalk] "MS Office" type software

Lilly S. lilly at shellyeah.org
Wed Nov 15 19:07:48 EST 2000


How about using something like WordPerfect and then saving it as MSWord
format? Would that work?

L.

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Bek Oberin wrote:

> 
> I need to produce a quite fancy word-processed document, with
> included picture(s) (Jpeg or Gif or something, preferaly), table
> of contents, footnotes, page numbers, headings, etc.  Hopefully
> also #include'd files (eg chapter1.doc, chapter2.doc and book.doc
> which includes all the chapters and changes if I change
> chapter1.doc)
> 
> It probably eventually needs to come out in MS Word format.  But
> I'm trying to avoid actually MAKING it in MS Word.  
> 
> Hopefully I can avoid booting into Windows at all.  I hate it.
> It drives me nuts.
> 
> I don't suppose I can do it in LaTeX and convert it across later?
> I don't know of any conversion software that'll take complex
> LaTeX and convert it to MS Word or RTF or anything word'll read.
> 
> How does the Office-type software for Linux go at this sort of a
> job?  I've never used any of it before ... never needed it. .. I
> always mark stuff up in HTML or in LaTeX.
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> 
> a whiney
> bekj
> 
> 





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