On 02/08/2011 02:32 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 13:40 -0500, Maurice Howe wrote:
How do I get Outlook to use Writer instead of Word as its text processor?
In two words - you can't. Outlook will ONLY use Word. (And that's
assuming you are using Office 2003 or earlier - 2007 and 2010 don't even
do that - they load a small stub of Word instead of the full-blown
module...)
Why would MS allow any competitor to be used. They will not obey the US
government's ruling for openness and required documentation. They will
not even document their "proposed document file standard" to the ISO
committee so it could be researched and used as a supported standard.
So why should their email and productivity software be able to be used
with non-MS software. Bad thinking on their part, but it is true.
If they were to allow their packages to easily use non-MS packages in
supporting roles, they would not be selling as many of those supporting
packages, since you would not be forced to use them.
My answer was to dump MS products as completely as I could. Governments
are doing just that as well.
After MS tried to force their .docx format to be required at the LOC.gov
and you needing to have their products to access the public accessible
files that is required to be public under the law, I do not see any
possible reason why MS should care about what is in the best interest of
their users or what is legally required of them as well. Just be sure
that they will be making it even more difficult in the future. When MS
Office comes to Linux, then you will know that MS is starting to make
their products more to what their users want and what the market needs,
than they are doing now with their "we know what is best for you"
mentality has come up with so far.
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