Must use MS-word. Help!.

[Adrian Hall]

> 	I am in a dreadful position.  I just took a new job at a company which
> uses Microsoft Word as the standard text tool.   I would love to put Linux on
> my machine there but it is imperative that I can manipulate documents in
> whatever format MSword uses.  AFAIK, neither Wine nor Dosemu will handle
> MSword.   I know that there is a windows-style editor (is it called
> wordperfect?) which is available from Caldera.
> I have never ever used any word processor written for dos/windows,
> so I have absolutely no clue whether they can use each other's formats.
> 
> The Major Question -- Can the word processor included with Caldera read 
> and write inMS-word format? (I don't mean emacs, tex/latex or 
> any of the really useful tools, but the dos/windows thing.)


MAJOR Problem.....Im having the same problem from SunOS --- at least
in that environment I have WABI!!!!....

The basic problem is not one of "Can Linux handle MS-Word documents", but
one of "Can I convince everyone to output the MS-Word documents in another
format just to satisfy me?"  --- the answer is usually no.

> The minor question:
> They also use Lotus cc:mail for internal e-mail.  Since I've been able
> to mail to them from my home linux box via PPP I expect no problems
> with email.

Only if they have a Unix side as well as a cc:Mail side --- otherwise you
are stuck again.



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