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Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> writes:

>> I'm not trying to be antagonistic, or insensitive to your particular
>> situation. =C2=A0But since no one else has said it, I just wanted to poi=
nt
>> out that it might be easier or more efficient, in terms of overall
>> person-hours, to convert from Word to Org, rather than the other way
>> around.
>
> If they're stuck in word and the OP is using org, he may be the only
> person on his team capable of changing his workflow. In that case,
> person hours are saved if he switches and doesn't have to educate
> everyone else (or they educate themselves), though *his* man hours are
> not economized.

Well, doesn't that depend on how long it would take to educate everyone
else, vs. how many hours he will eventually spend doing manual
conversion to Word?

Richard