[ubuntu-uk] Microsoft proprietary file types?

[Grant Sewell]

On Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:23 +0100
Sean Miller wrote:

> On 20 May 2011 07:00, Paul Morgan-Roach <roachy at roachy.net> wrote:
> 
> > My advice - open the document if you can.  If it's something that
> > depends on layout heavily, ask for it as a jpg or pdf.
> 
> 
> Actually, it's got significantly better of late...
> 
> Presentations should not be a major issue... people should not be
> creating layout-critical documents in 'Word' anyway... it's not what
> word processors are for....

Shouldn't unfortunately doesn't mean doesn't.  There are still an
absolute tonne of people who prefer to lay stuff out using text boxes
and the like in a word processor than using a more appropriate tool.

Grant.