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On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:47:45 +0000, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:39:26 GMT, soup wrote:

Why? Surely 90%+ of all businesses use Word (blinking Bill gets
everywhere), and while Open Office (for instance)can open DOC files I
don't think Word can open ODF files. So it would seem to make
sense to
send any correspondence to companies as a DOC file.

Far more sense to send it as a .pdf, not quite as easy to edit and far
more likely to appear the same on their machine as it does on yours.

Although by that metric (much as I agree), sending it as an image would
work even better (the electronic equivalent of posting it) - but I've
never heard of anyone doing that.


You have now.

I use Openoffice for just about everything, and it drives me nuts that I
have to go and locate a Windows machine with Word on it every time I'm
sending something "off site" in electronic form, purely so I can verify
that OO has correctly saved in Word format properly & that the doc will
look more or less as it should for the recipient.

Who knows what it will look like to the recipient. I was at a
committee meeting yesterday considering a document which had been
circulated in Word format. Everyone present had vastly different
rubbish -- ten people round the table, ten different documents, none of
them right.

Why can't they use PDF then?..

Precisely the question I asked. And when they saw the tremendous
variations among the attempts at printing out the documents which had
been distributed by email, they agreed :-).