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As far as alternates solutions to Office... I'm up for anything... however, I cannot go back to my bosses and say let's use these alternative programs UNLESS they are both free and can open the M$ native documents. Because the very purpose of this installation would be so our designers can open files sent to them by clients... it's primarily a copy / paste thing... so reading the pasteboard limitations concerns me.
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uhhh, OO does not do Word dotdocs. If you only need to open Word docs (and not Excel files or PowerPoint) to copy and paste, what is wrong with TextEdit? It doesn't get all the formatting all the time, but it does get the information..
You are talking about an all Mac situation,
n'est pas? Is it all OS X? I had set up an MS free solution in a pre-X environment. The freebie NisusWriter freebie with Dataviz translation would open the dot doc files. It did a fair job with formatting and then we would save them for whatever purpose as text files. You could set up an older machine just to translate docs and save them to the central server. An Applescript folder could automate the whole process.
I don't know if there are OSX versions for MacLink or Nisus.