Re: reading MS word files

[Nyizsnyik Ferenc <nyizsa@bluebottle.com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 11:11 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:40:55PM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote:
> > > >> However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking
> > > >> that its the only format around, what works?  I need not just the text
> > > >> but collumns, tables, images, the works.
> > 
> > Who sends you doc files? Ask for
> > ogg, mpeg2 or xxx files.
> 
> People who think operating a computer is using MS office. Period.
> 
> They get a glazed look when I ask for plain text even if the .doc files
> they send are only straight text.  Since I've never used a windows
> computer (started with OS/2 and went to Debian directly), I don't know
> what extra work there is for them, but I understand that the windows
> recipients have to do extra work if its not a .doc file.  The sender
> tells me its more work to send .doc to everyone else and something else
> to me.
> 
You can always send them PDFs as a revenge...
(and to make them recognize that there are several other formats out
there.)
:)

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