[nylug-talk] .oO or MS Office ? Neither!

[Ah Pook]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007 10:15 am, Sunny Dubey wrote:
> My experience has been that copy/pasting is the single biggest cause
> of formatting gone wrong.  Microsoft Office and OpenOffice seem hell
> bent on preserving the original formatting of the copy/pasted text
> regardless of the conventions and formatting of the new document. 

That's probably the single biggest thing that drives me batty.  "NO!  
That is NOT a date!  And why are you making it BOLD?!" <savage crying>

But then again, it's 2007, and cut and pasting *still* doesn't work 
properly between apps in Linux, so I won't hold my breath.