Hi Kevin
You're also touching on accessibility issues there, as well as gov
business processes, legal requirements etc etc.
One thing I thought worth raising and worth considering though is
copyright - do you even have permission to alter the format of the
document as submitted to you? US
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Document Formats
Hi Kevin
You're also touching on accessibility issues there, as well as gov
business processes, legal requirements etc etc.
One thing I
On 11/30/10 11:52 AM, Erickson, Kevin (DOE) wrote:
The website I work with receives a lot of documents to be posted that
come in the form of Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. And now, with
the release of the latest versions of Ms Office, they are coming to me
with an X on their extensions.
Hello Kevin,
You are right about providing HTML and PDF versions. If you must provide
a Word version then I suggest converting your documents to the old *.doc
format which can be read by all versions of Word back to Word 97.
If you have Word 2002 or earlier you can download a converter to
Kevin,
This query opens a much broader discussion about the convergence of web
content management systems and document management systems, and the
appropriate use of various applications to present and format information
for various media. Word, pdf etc are often used as presentation applications
UNCLASSIFIED
Some further reasons for not making Microsoft Word documents available
via a web site are:
1. The format is trivially editable, so your document might be easily
changed and repurposed in ways you would rather it wasn't and,
2. By default, Microsoft Word documents contain the content
On 11/30/10 11:52 AM, Erickson, Kevin (DOE) wrote:
Hi All, The website I work with receives a lot of documents to be
posted that come in the form of Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents.
And now, with the release of the latest versions of Ms Office, they
are coming to me with an X on their
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