Plea for help: The detriment of using Microsoft products

[jdarnold at buddydog.org (Jonathan Arnold)]

> Which reminds me:  I just got a significant doc in Word  format,  and
> when  I  printed  it on my wife's W98 machine, parts came out garbled
> and funny looking.  I've heard a rumor that there was a Word that ran

You might try looking at StarOffice. It's a free Office-like suite from
Sun, that runs on Windows & Linux. The latest beta version (5.2) has some pretty 
solid filters for reading and writing MSoft files. Check it out at:

http://www.sun.com/staroffice

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