On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 06:25:35PM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: | On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 05:40:56PM -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote: | > No, there's no gun to anyone's head. However, as part of negotiating my | > current contract (I'm a partner in a small software development | > company), we recieved lots of MS Word/Excel docs. When you're | > negotiating new business, saying "erm, I don't do windows. Can you give | | I sure don't have any problems with word or excel docs. Ever heard of | OpenOffice? I send people doc and xls files all the time, nobody's complained | yet. Openoffice doesn't yet handle tables, or other complex document bits very well. It also can't create powerpoint files well. Its great if what you need is either simple, or read-mostly. 50 page documents with embedded spreadsheets, not there yet. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume