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Old 05-05-2010, 09:11 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by MovieBird View Post
I often receive Word documents from clients to work with, but what about PowerPoint? I was actually referring more to what is used internally, as that is what you do your work on. Are you going to fight crappy formatting for years on those days when you have to take work home, just to save (your company) a hundred dollars? Do you expect a large amount of others to perform the same?
No, I don't.

But I wouldn't be surprised to see a startup based on OpenOffice for everything. The time has come when that is not only possible, but probable.

There is no "death grip" as it existed a couple of years (or decade) before, when sending MS office documents out of the company was the norm.
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