[gobolinux-users] open office versus OO.o

[MJ Ray]

Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls at pareto.nl>
> If I have to talk to Word users I need something that will not only 
> translate a word document into something legible, but also be able to 
> convert my changes back to .doc so the other person can read it. [..]

As I understand it, Microsoft Word doc is little more than a binary
dump of objects used by Word, so it is really awkward to write.  If
you just need to send them files which can be loaded into Word, RTF
works well enough.

> Btw.  I have searched long and hard for a way to be able to read and 
> write Excel sheets in emacs, so you can see how much OO.o would be 
> against all I believe in. :-)

I think there's xsl2csv around and Excel can load csv.  It depends
what you're tying to get Excel to do.  Play Doom?

Hope that helps,
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