On 12/31/10 05:07 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 30/12/10 20:41, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2010/12/30 2:19 PM Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
OOXML will spread anyway because MS Office 2007 and 2010 use this format by default. Nothing you can do about it I'm afraid....
Yes you can do something about it. Don't enable writing in that format. Use
PDF's for communicating. If a MS user needs to be able to modify a document,
use .doc format. There is no need to use .docx format. MS Office 2008 and 2011
can still read .doc files.
None of you get the point, do you.
1. It is arrogant to return a document in a format different to that which was
sent to you. (That's why email clients always reply in the same format in which
the original message was received)
It must be arrogant for them to send you a format you don't support. Also, if
the Win 7 users don't know what format the documents are in, why does it matter
if it's returned to them in a .doc format?
2. Changing the format may well lose formatting in the document that is not
supported in the older document type.
Changing the format is inevitable. Libreoffice and OOo converts it to ODF when
it opens/imports the docx. When you save that document as a .doc file
Libreoffice and OOo simply export it to that format. There are two conversion,
opening and saving. As I stated previously, saving to .docx will not be as
accurate as saving to .doc until it matures.
3. .doc, .xls and .ppt are Microsoft proprietary formats anyway - it's just
that they are much easier to analyse...
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