In article , Adrian
scribeth thus
dmc@puffin. (D.M.Chapman) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

If you are hoping to exchange documents with people who use MS Office
then expect some pain.

Expect that between versions of MS Office, too.

SWMBO applied for a job a while back. The application form was sent
through as a Word .doc (definitely created in Office, probably XP)

She opened it in 2k7 on Vista. The formatting was utterly unusable, and
the document had spread to about 95 pages.

I opened it in OpenOffice on Linux. It was utterly workable. Completed,
PDF'd and sent. Job jobbed.

I suppose MS office like most all MS stuff makes some money for PC
suppliers so these are what will be sold and people will tend to use as
they think thats what we have to use and thats the standard so...
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Tony Sayer