John DeCarlo wrote:
> I have been trying to use OpenOffice for all of my documents.
>
> Its internal document format uses XML.
>
> It has so far handled every Word document I have tried, except for one
> key item: line numbering.
>
> Version 1.1 simply does not number the same way that Word does
> (something about how headers and footers are numbered across pages, etc.).
>
That's something that bothered me for a long time, until I discovered that
the same problem applies to different versions of Word itself and it's not
an OO specific issue...
> This has been the only show stopper for me, since conference call
> discussions tend to refer to line numbers.
>
> OTOH, beta versions have improved on this, though I would not recommend
> using a beta.
>
> Mason, Howard (UK) wrote:
>
>> I note the debate on XML.
>
>
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