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Re: [PLUG] Linux on the desktop (was: rationalizing .Mac web pages)
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On 28 Feb, 2004, at 09:58, Art Clemons wrote:
Opened in OOO, and re-saved, and re-opened in Word (to simulate
sharing
documents between OOO users and Word users) ... none of the aligment
was correct. I had to edit the entire
document, re-aligning each point, to the way I wanted it, and the way
it
used to be, in Word. And resizing a table, with it's columns,
and bullet points in table cells.
I've had similar problems though going from WordXP to someone running
Word2000 and others claim the same problem with docs produced in
Word2000 opened by Word97. Word's format changes. I've learned to
produce an RTF, PDF and DOC when exchanging documents, and it gets
more complicated when dealing with let's say a spreadsheet. Something
as simple as font substitution can destroy format as can for example.
One more comment until recently, Word docs had a nasty habit of
retaining the old version that had been worked on, with the prior
changes available for anyone in the know to see and note who had made
the changes. I'm not sure if an update is available for anything
older than WordXP. It raised interesting security issues if one
sometimes used propietary or secret info that was to be removed after
revisions and several people were working on the same doc, and finally
a copy was shipped out or posted on a website. In that situation,
formatting was less important than security.
Both of these situations are well known "Word" ISSUES in the Mac world.
Every version of Word has modified its document format. (Microsoft
describes this as "improving.") For a while, the version of Word which
ran on the Mac OS was "advanced" compared to the version available for
the PC -- and documents saved on the Mac could not be opened in Word on
the PC, unless they were saved in an "old version." The Mac, however,
could read any document created in any version of Word for the PC.
The newer versions of Word tend to be capable of reading any of the
older versions of Word, but "obviously" not the reverse.
The "changes" issue is a selectable option - historically ON by
default. It is one reason why "short" Word documents can take up huge
amounts of disk space. I think in XP they finally changed the default.
... and needless to say, these changes in document formats are not well
(if at all) documented by Microsoft.
T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
magill@mcgillsociety.org
magill@acm.org
magill@mac.com
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