[P1] What's the skinny on windows media player for mac?

[Larry Kollar]

> Just curious, how do you get around MS Office documents (Word, 
> Powerpoint, Excel)??  I too would avoid MS, but it seems impossible.

OpenOffice.org does a pretty good job with most Office docs, including 
some pathological[1] cases. If you just need to read something (or 
convert it to something more reasonable), AppleWorks can usually get it 
open with some formatting booglies. I've run into some files that AW 
can't open at all, but if AW can't do it OOo can.

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Larry Kollar    k  o  l  l  a  r  @  a  l  l  t  e  l  .  n  e  t
"The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking."
-- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc 
[1] I won't argue with anyone who would consider Office formats 
pathological by design, but I'm thinking about documents that (say) 
Word itself has trouble with.