Odd. I use Word all day, every day. Save all manuscripts as docs and have never had a problem. Paul On Nov 14, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> The weird twist on this is when you have Word's "quicksave" feature > turned on. Then the .DOCs are generally a mess and impossible to > translate. > > On the rare occasion I use Word (hate it), I always configure it to > always save .RTF files and never save .DOCs. > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:42 AM, P. J. Alling > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Word files are essentially compiled RTF files. However there's at least some >> kind of documentation on RTF. which makes writing filters much easier. >> >> On 11/14/2010 12:25 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>> From: David J Brooks >>> >>>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Jeffery Smith <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Ditto on Open Office. Haven't had the urge to use MS Office in years. >>>>>> >>>>>> Jeffery >>>> >>>> Right now, since my PC is not wanting to boot up, i am opening doc's >>>> in either Pages or Test editor on my mac laptop. I can read them but >>>> sometimes i get a lot of strange characters in the doc that i don't >>>> want when i print them out. >>>> I have done doc's in Appleworks and saved them as word do's but the >>>> people i send them to cannot open them >>> >>> Any time I have a document on an Apple computer that I know is going to >>> have to be read on a PC, I save as a "RICH TEXT FORMAT" (.rtf) file. So far, >>> that's never failed me. >>> >>> You can't count on any version of M$ Word actually being readable by any >>> other version, and especially can't count on any non-M$ Word text editor's >>> version of word.doc files to be readable by another program ... >>> double-especially across platforms. >>> >> >> >> -- >> "His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed >> moral bankruptcy." >> -Woody Allen >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
