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Re: :-O
by yg on Thursday 28/Aug/2003, @03:20

> Much of what: http://www.mind.lu/~yg/office.html says is simply wrong.

That is your opinion.

> What does it mean that you have to "deal with Microsoft Office (MSO) files"?
> Does this mean that you have to be able to open them in an application so that
> you can edit them, or does it mean that you just have to read them somehow?

Edit them (which includes saving without screwing them) and print them.

> This is an important distinction.

Not in business. Ask your CIO if he would give green light for a new Office suite that can only read MSO files... dunno if he would like it...

> And the printer example is even dumber. Hasn't he heard of PDF.

sure I have.
I work for a service company, and when a customer sends me a document I am not
really in the best position to tell him "buddy, I need a pdf".
Coz I would be the only 1 to tell him "I cannot handle M$ Office files".
All the other IT companies he deals with don't bother him.
And you know sometimes I get documents I have to edit and send back.

I wrote this document http://www.mind.lu/~yg/office.html with users in mind.

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Re: :-O
by James Richard Tyrer on Thursday 28/Aug/2003, @15:02

> Edit them (which includes saving without screwing them) and print them.

IIUC, people from outside your business, send you DOC files and you have to edit them. Is this the norm, or just a small percentage of the cases.

Printing isn't an issue, a viewer can print if you have the fonts.

> Ask your CIO if he would give green light for a new Office suite that can
> only read MSO files... dunno if he would like it.

Not "read" but rather view them.

My CIO understands that it is a LARGE security problem to exchange DOC files, and I use MS WordViewer to view them.

Actually, HOWEVER, it is *reading* DOC files which is the problem, many wordprocessors can write perfect DOC files (because they don't use the cryptic "features").

> And you know sometimes I get documents I have to edit and send back.

Edit, or just mark up?

What I am saying -- my point -- is that a viewer, like MS's viewer that could view and print (this should include print to PDF and FAX) DOC files would solve many of the issues without the problems of an import filter.

--
JRT

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Re: :-O
by Nicolas Goutte on Friday 05/Sep/2003, @11:53

Reading MS Word file is not really a problem. The problem is the automatically executed macros. KWord has not any macro inside documents. So no need to worry about that!

(That is the same reason why some people prefer RTF over native MS Word documents.)

Have a nice day!

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