Re: [discuss] Telling the user what gets lost

[Lars D. Noodén]

In some ways it would be useful to know the difference btween the formats. 
However, there are over a dozen different MS-Word formats and each one 
loses somewhat different information or formatting, even when going 
between other MS-Word formats.  It would be a big project to document and 
map the problems, especially since the MS-Word formats are not themselves 
documented though they are supposed to be.

Of course very few news outlets cover that fact or anything related to 
it.  I've seen only one article the last few months:
	http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39189309,00.htm

Kind of like when countries or cities drop MS for better closed or open 
source products, that region's IT news disappears from news coverage in 
the popular media.

-Lars
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Jonathon Blake wrote:
Arkady wrote:
- then why worry users at all? Warnings should be given _only_ in case 
if target _format_ is really _limited_
_Word_ is an extremely limited format. [ It is, AFAIK, the only
document file format, in which creating a document that causes the
beloved BSOD in windows.]
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