Am Freitag, den 20.05.2005, 13:00 -0400 schrieb Chad Smith: > .... the document may have a slight formating shift - > but the data (and that is the word that was used eariler "those who > want to use their *data*") the *DATA* is reproducable throughout the > various versions of MSO. >
I wonder why people use word processors at all, if they are only interested in the data. In contrast to Desktop Publishing Systems, which can keep the text in a separate file, word processors always force you to include the format into the document. > Say whatever you wish to say, Jonathan, the facts are there. MSO can > open and edit and save files from MSO. I do it several times a week. > Most of the files should work. You should expect that MS has done some minimum tests. But I can remember at a customer site we had an Excel file and after an obligatory update of MS Office, some of the formats had been lost. Unfortunately you couldn't view some of the data and it wasn't possible to remove the format in the new version. Since our customer is one of the fortune 50 companies in this world, they simply hired some Indians, who manually recreated the complete Excel file in the new version of Office. I'm not sure if this is a bad thing though :-/. > -Chad Smith Detlef --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
