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Almost replacing Word with StarOffice

The vicissitudes of trying to convert an office to Linux and
StarOffice and then having to convert back. Important reading.

“The straws which broke the camel’s back were that: (1) SLLF had
handed a disk to an associate for editing, and had it returned with
a Word Macro Virus thoughtfully added. In the process of
discovering and eradicating the virus, the NT server did several
weird things, and it was discovered that Word/Win311 had been
locking up occasionally and corrupting files…”

“I suggested that it might be worth investigating StarOffice on
Linux as a replacement for their word-processing system…”

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