Even if you _did_ have Word but not the same version as the recipient, the document's format would _still_ be messed up. I don't care to recall how often I have come across clients "no-sweat, promise" Word upgrades only to be forced to rework their just completed documents.
The only alternative: .pdf documents, because they are guaranteed to retain all original formatting. Hendrik Schaink Jesse Kline wrote: >> Not sure entirely how relevant this is, but try: >> >> http://grover.open2space.com/node/154 > > That's an interesting article. Nice work Shawn! However, my issue is that > I've had a couple professors that require submissions in Word documents. > This pisses me off because it is a proprietary format and because I don't > use MS Office, so there's no guarantee that my formatting will convert > correctly. This can be fairly critical when I'm required to submit a paper > of a certain length and in a certain style. I'm looking for some good > articles to throw at them in the hopes of changing this policy. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
