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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
