why is it so hard to work with ms office files? it should be easy. expected: there ought to be a setting that changes the default file types for open, save, save as (file ops) so that the user is always easily working with his favorite file type (save, save as, and open). but changing the file type should always be available. this should be set at installation. during an upgrade from a version which did not have this feature (or every time) installer should query the user for the file types desired for those 3 file ops via a combo box, OR specify a radio button to work with MS Office 2007/2010(.docx), MS Office 2003 XML, MS Office 97(.doc), Ooen Document Format(ODF), default being MS Office 2007/2010(.docx).
actual: opening a file you must specify a file type (should not be necessary, should be detectable by file extension - if application gets a file extension that targets multiple file types, query the user. ------------- Jim Michaels [email protected] [email protected] http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- IEC Units: Computer RAM & SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measurements (note: they will say GB or MB or KB or TB when it is IEC Units!): [KiB] [MiB] [GiB] [TiB] [2^10B=1,024^1B=1KiB] [2^20B=1,024^2B=1,048,576B=1MiB] [2^30B=1,024^3B=1,073,741,824B=1GiB] [2^40B=1,024^4B=1,099,511,627,776B=1TiB] [2^50B=1,024^5B=1,125,899,906,842,624B=1PiB] SI Units: Hard disk industry disk size measurements: [kB] [MB] [GB] [TB] [10^3B=1,000B=1kB] [10^6B=1,000,000B=1MB] [10^9B=1,000,000,000B=1GB] [10^12B=1,000,000,000,000B=1TB] [10^15B=1,000,000,000,000,000B=1PB]
