Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:
In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:

Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment.



Nobody has yet suggested the obvious....


The sender should be asked to send it again in a standard format, rather
than some proprietry file. It may be no issue to the BillyGoat brigade
(although clearly it is here) but how about those who use real operating
systems?

Plain text is for email, if the "pretties" are essential, then PDF is the
answer

I am afraid I have to say you are IMHO completely right.


The only excuse for sending something in word processor format, is so
that it may be subsequently edited.