[discuss] Re: ms word

2009-04-16 Thread Gordon
Twayne wrote: I believe it IS a hardship for many, because it's new, must be rolled out if they're a company or on a LAN, To return to the discussion of the Sun ODF plugin for MS Office that won't work on Office 97 - if the OP's correspondents are in a corporate or company environment,

Re: [discuss] Re: ms word

2009-04-16 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 08:37:40 AM +0100, Gordon wrote: To return to the discussion of the Sun ODF plugin for MS Office that won't work on Office 97 Just to avoid confusion: I am the one who originally mentioned the plugin incompatibility with Office 97 first, but I'm not the one whose

Re: [discuss] Re: ms word

2009-04-07 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 13:22 -0400, Twayne wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 13:14 +0100, Ron wrote: I use and prefer Openoffice.Org . Its an excellent program. However my correspondents use only MS Word and the command open with , does not work. How do we get around this

[discuss] Re: ms word

2009-04-06 Thread Twayne
Ian Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 13:14 +0100, Ron wrote: I use and prefer Openoffice.Org . Its an excellent program. However my correspondents use only MS Word and the command open with , does not work. How do we get around this problem ??? You can either save as.. rtf or .doc.

Re: [discuss] Re: ms word

2009-04-06 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 13:22:25 PM -0400, Twayne wrote: Right. When sending documents, if the recipient's capabilities are known, the sender should try to accomodate. Why propagate a virus? Because that is what sending out files in proprietary formats amounts to. Of course, there are a lot of