On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Bear Tooth wrote:
> So would there be any problem with copying her existing
> draft from FC5 abiword to the portable drive, running it under M$,
> and then copying the changes back to the FC5 machine when she got
> home?
That should - fingers crossed - work perfectly.
> Case two : my friend, who runs only M$, I don't know what
> variety. If I created such a portable drive for him, probably with
> both abiword and OO, would he be able to move Word projects from his
> machine onto and off the drive, with both apps, at will? I'm
> thinking he could take some urgent project back and forth between
> his home and his office, at a cost of no more briefcase space than a
> book; and that might appeal enough to get him to try it.
Should work but given your description he may well complain that
formatting of Word documents is not perferctly preserved when moving to
other applications (at which point you can point out not even different
versions of Word can always preserve all the formatting).
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