Re: [PLUG] Rountripping redlining from M$Word through Start/OpenOffice

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 19:12, Sam Hunting wrote:
> The subject line says it all, basically.
> 
> My publisher requires me to revise my manuscript using MS redlining,
> and I have removed M$ office from my machine.

Can you reinstall, using Wine (presuming you have a Win9x partition that
WINE can access, I think it will run Office 97; if not, I don't know how
well WINE will run Word)?

> 
> StarOffice will import MS redlining fine, and record changes, but when
> it comes time to export from StarOffice to MS, either:
> 
> a) when exporting from StarOffice as RTF, the redlining information is
> lost
> 
> or
> 
> b) when trying to export as Word 97 from StarOffice, the program hangs,
> and then has to be re-installed (!!).
> 
> So -- how do I roundtrip redlining from M$ Word through Star Office?

Hrmm. Try the new OpenOffice beta? What version of Office - the new Word
will read the XML format that OpenOffice uses as a default (I'm told).


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