Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 9/27/05, J. David Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>> But the best thing to do would be to save your files as MS Office
>> documents
>> > (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc) so anyone in the world can open it.
>> >
>>
>> Unless of course, anyone in the world doesn't have Micro$oft tools...
>>
>> Dave in Largo, FL
>
>
>
> Why would you possibly need Microsoft tools?
>
> Word Perfect opens MS formats - OpenOffice.org opens MS formats - AbiWord
> does, KOffice does, AppleWorks, ThinkFree Office, Ability Office,
> EasyOffice, TextEdit, Lotus SmartSuite, 602PC Suite, StarOffice,
> GnomeOffice, Evermore Intergrated Office, Writely, WPS Office, NeoOffice/J
> --- All of these software programs - every single one of them, at least
> opens MS formats. Many of these run on OSes other than MS Windows, in fact,
> a lot of them are not available for Windows. So please enlighten me as to
> why in the world they would need anything from Microsoft?
>
> -Chad Smith

Oops, my bad.  I thought _you_ were saying that they were all running
Microsoft stuff, since you said that they should save their files in .doc
format.  I didn't realize all those programs were available to read .doc
format files.

Sorry for the semi-stupidity!

Dave


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