Susan Bradley wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:42:48 +1300, Nick FitzGerald said: > > >> > Yeah, but if she has to actually _exchange_ documents with with >> others > who don't run the same similarly broken version of OOO as >> she does (and > let's just ignore the embarrasing proportion of OOO >> documents that > won't correctly re-open after you save and close >> them), or worse, with > lecturers/tutors/etc who will almost surely >> be using the "real" MS > version and may be rather intolerant of >> marking her assignments if they > don't open properly... >> > > Hmm... you've never worked in an enterprise where half the people have > upgraded to the new release of Word, and the other half haven't installed > the plugin that lets their old Word not vomit when they get documents > from > the new Word. > > ----------- >
Tell your admin download the Office group policy admx file Go up to the server Set the default policy for Word/Excel (whatever) to save as the 2003 format even if someone is using 2007. No vomit. I only recently flipped that setting off, but for about two years, we had no compat issues. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
