On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:08:51AM -0400, Hartnett wrote:
> I know that MS word is probably the most widely used document format,
> but what is the most cross platform and open format, and can keep all
> that fancy formatting for such things as a resume?
It depends on exactly how fancy you want to get, but I use HTML for
this. As long as you keep it fairly simple and use standard HTML, it
will come out looking more or less the same across platforms.
> Perhaps the same question can be asked of a spreadsheet format?
Gnumeric reads xls. Spreadsheet formats are pretty well proprietary,
for the most part. Some of the open suites (like KOffice) are moving
to an XML-based format, but you're not likely to see it on a M$
platform any time soon...
Star Office does run on both Windows and Unix, and has both of these
capabilities... it also reads M$ formats fairly well.
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