[X Newbies] Apple and all of these viruses?

[TheMacintoshLady]

T. Patrick Henebry tapped out this message on 8/22/03 6:38 PM 

>Sort of. If the document has complex tables or uses lots of Styles it won't
>open correctly. I know this from experience. Unfortunately NOTHING other
>than Word will correctly open complex Word documents. Also, AppleWorks does
>not have the collaboration and version tracking tools Word has.
>
>I finally ended up forking over the money to get Office v.X for those
>reasons.

When AW doesn't work, I end up using BBEdit. Most often its just text 
people could have sent me in email or a .txt file but darned if they can 
figure out how to save it as 'text'. <sigh>