Word .DOC viewer for Mozilla

[Justin Zygmont]

Interesting, I always knew MS went to great lengths to do things like 
this.  So this means that opening a word 2000 .doc file won't show up 
properly with say word 97?  then why can't a recent version of OO read a 
word 2000 .doc file?


On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> 
> > there must be in the application helper section, I guess just specify the
> > command line like the others are setup.  I was also wondering the best way
> > to handle .doc files in linux, openoffice, isn't 100%.
> 
> OO is 100% the document generators are a moving target and make it
> impossible for OO to be 100% for new encodings. Try to open a recent .doc
> file with an older version of word and awe and wonder at the results.
> 
> Peter
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