The BeOS version could read most Excel and Word files and all the files I created were read by Word or Excel without issue. The new one looks like it can save directly to .pdf format also. <opinion> Now if you want someone else to be able to read your work you can't get too much more universal than .pdf unless you want to use plain text or maybe html.</opinion> My guess is for 99.9% of what most people use MS Office for either Gobe or (get ready here it comes) Star Office will work fine. Given my past experience with products from Gobe I am betting that it will be much faster than Star Office. Your warm and fuzzy feelings for Star Office are well known on this list, and for the most part I agree. Star Office is slow and doesn't play as well with MS Office as it could/should/would but this is something that you couldn't have even tried yet so why the instant dislike? -----Original Message----- From: Ben Lutgens [mailto:blutgens at sistina.com] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:56 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Another office suite for Linux On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:38:15AM -0500, Steve Grobe wrote: >I own a copy of the version for BeOS so it looks like I can upgrade to both >the Windows and Linux version for $39.95. and if the documents it creates are not "portable" to the de-facto standard (which for the most part is MS Office) it's as useless as star office, abi, koffice, and all the rest. > >http://www.gobe.com/press/pr8_29_2001.html > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Lutgens Sistina Software Inc. What's the difference between root and God ? God doesn't think that he is root.