If you are going to share documents with others as part of a team
development effort i.e. where more than one person is responsible for
content then it is best to share them as plain text (ASCII) documents
and add formating (bold, oblique, etc) after there is consensus on
content.
In order of portability these are my choices for document formats from
most portable to least portable:
1. Plain text/ASCII
2. Rich Text Format (RTF)
3. Micro$oft .doc or .docx
All editors should be able to handle plain text with one caveat and
that is line endings. UNIX and UNIX-like (i.e. *BSD and LINUX)
Macintosh and DOS (Windoze) all use different line endings. Chose one
that is incompatible with the recipient's editor and they will
probably see one long line of text and perhaps some garbage here and
there. Probably the one that is most compatible across OSes is DOS
(Windoze).
--
St. Doug, Tigger and Puppy in our memory.
Tir na nOg
Wilton, NH USA
On Oct 2, 2008, at 1:51 PM, PJH wrote:
Michele has written on 9/3/2008 5:23 AM:
2008/9/2 THOMAS E CRAWFORD SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sent an email with an attachment via Writer BUT they're
Microsoft Word would not open it. Any suggestions? Are both
programs compatible? Is there life after death?
Regards,
Thomas E. Crawford, Sr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not too sure about life after death :-)
To share documents with MS Word users you have to save them as .doc
(File > Save As). Even better, if you do not expect the recipient to
edit the documents, send them as PDF (File > Export as PDF).
Then they'll have trouble with Acrobat!! ;-)
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