Word Attachments

[Art Alexion]

On Monday 30 April 2007 17:05, Roman Wissner wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> ...
>
> > If you send me a Word document (or a Powerpoint) I _will_ be able to read
> > it.  I really doubt you're going to be happy with the results if it's
> > complex and I make some mods and send it back to you though.  otoh, most
> > Windows systems don't have the tools to make something platform
> > independent that I could modify and send back, so I tend to accept Word
> > documents and let the originator worry if I screw up their formatting.
>
> That, unfortunately, is true. You could tell them to export the document
> to HTML, but I doubt that this will do much good.

Well formed HTML is probably more imprecise than a word document across 
computers; why it is even imprecise when viewed via KHTML (konqueror) vs. 
gecko (firefox) on the same computer.


> And to some extent I agree that we have to be pragmatic - I will open
> word documents but only if I have to and after telling them to use an
> open format instead. I think I'll alter my signature a bit.

You could try having them save to word processor documents to RTF (microsoft 
rich text format).  I am not sure how open that format is, but it is ascii 
based, not binary, and can be opened by just about any word processor worth 
using, including abiword and kword.
> Respectfully Yours,
> Roman Wissner
>
> --
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> Use OpenDocument (e.g. OpenOffice.org) instead.

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