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Old 07-29-2004, 07:12 PM   #1
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A quick question, how good is openoffice spelling checker compared to the Ms Word one?
 
Old 07-29-2004, 07:46 PM   #2
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Old 07-29-2004, 08:12 PM   #3
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I found it a lot better than MS Word. I have been using OpenOffice now for a year, both on windoze and now linux. I have compared documents that were already checked with MS Word, but i found errors using OpenOffice.

There is my .02 cents.

 
  


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