On Thu, 2005-29-09 at 15:28 -0700, Craig White wrote: ...snip...
of course you are ignoring the fact that if you use Word and save the file in a foreign format, you get the same type of warnings.
I guess I don't see the distinction except that the warnings in OO only come when you save files in .DOC format and in Word, when you don't save in .DOC format.
Well said.
The last time I updated my resume was at least 5 years ago. I believe it was in Word format, so I exported it and reformatted it in Applix which I no longer have, but fortunately I had the foresight to also save it in standard ascii text and RTF. It turns out we did not go public and I did not have to bid for my job, so it was never used.
My point here is if I had only saved it in Applix I may have had to redo it from scratch. Lets just pretend that MSFT went bust, after being sued for mental pain and anguish by millions of people in a class action suite, and word was no longer available ; How would Massachusetts citizens gain access to state documents stored in word format that they needed when they had no way of running word anymore.
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PS: Would like to start a class action suite against MSFT for the mental pain and anguish they have suffered from the use their products. If you would then sign me up. ;^)