OT: Trial software / expiration (was Re: OT: Edge on Linux - Issue.)

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009, Kenneth Brody wrote:
...
>They're the students own computers, and they use the trial MS-Office because 
>it came pre-loaded on their computer and they don't know any better.
>
>And Laura would tell them about OOo, and show how they can open two windows 
>side-by-side and re-type the paper.  Not the ideal solution, but the 
>software is free, and they can hire the dorm's fastest typist for a slice of 
>pizza and a soda.

Is there something about the files created by the trial MS-Office
that prevents them from being read by OpenOffice.org?  I haven't
found any MS-Word files that aren't readable on OOo, even the new
``standard'' .docx files.  My wife is running a somewhat out of
date version of MS-Office for Mac which can't handle some Word
documents which work fine in OOo.

Bill
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