On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:43:10 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:
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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.

Or that you don't know of any alternatives...

Like most users.


A simple e-mail saying 'please export that as a PDF' suffices there..

I cant off hand think of any 2D drawing or word processing package that
cant do that these days.

MS Word can't AIUI.

Modern versions can.



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