I've just spent 2 hours working on a document in OpenOffice that I need to put forward as a process improvement, and need to be usable by several people here in the office. And you know what?
The moment you open the thing in Mirosoft Word, the format goes to pot!
And, of course, I have to make sure that everyone can open this, and since there are certain people who insist on still using Windows, it's back to the drawing board.
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Microsoft Word is an utter barstool
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Magus_Melchior
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Well, if it was just font and style formatting, .RTF should do the trick.
But if you're doing fancier things like margins and such, well, RTF tells you to smeg off, unfortunately (I hand-coded one once on an old Apple IIgs).
Another possibility is *shudder* HTML, but I'm afraid to think of what would happen if a) OpenOffice tries to export it, and b) MS Word tries to import it.
Yet another possibility (if they're receptive to using something other than Office) is either opening it in Abiword Portable (but I don't know what the ODF support in that one is like), or putting OpenOffice Portable (BIG download) onto a USB stick and tell them to copy it onto their PCs.
Here's where one can find both apps for Windows.
And if all that fails and you have a Windows PC that you can monkey with, you could install the Word viewer on that and play with the formatting until it plays nice in the viewer. That's how I got my resume to some of the temp agencies in my area that insisted on .DOC files.
"But you can read PDFs, right?" I said.
"Yes, but we need .DOC files."
"..."
But if you're doing fancier things like margins and such, well, RTF tells you to smeg off, unfortunately (I hand-coded one once on an old Apple IIgs).
Another possibility is *shudder* HTML, but I'm afraid to think of what would happen if a) OpenOffice tries to export it, and b) MS Word tries to import it.
Yet another possibility (if they're receptive to using something other than Office) is either opening it in Abiword Portable (but I don't know what the ODF support in that one is like), or putting OpenOffice Portable (BIG download) onto a USB stick and tell them to copy it onto their PCs.
Here's where one can find both apps for Windows.
And if all that fails and you have a Windows PC that you can monkey with, you could install the Word viewer on that and play with the formatting until it plays nice in the viewer. That's how I got my resume to some of the temp agencies in my area that insisted on .DOC files.
"But you can read PDFs, right?" I said.
"Yes, but we need .DOC files."
"..."
Last edited by Magus_Melchior on Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:17 am, edited 1 time in total.
Hey man,Magus_Melchior wrote:"But you can read PDFs, right?" I said.
"Yes, but we need .DOC files."
"..."
I'm not entirely sure why, but that makes me really mad. One of my personal pet peeves is when people e-mail things that should be read-only as read-write documents. I HATE that. . . .
Takes a breath,
manaman