On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:20:02 -0500, "Howard Coles Jr."<dhcolesj@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Fwd: Microsoft respondents say they cannot open LINUX attachments. What can we advise them please Wrote these words of wisdom: > On Saturday 29 October 2005 04:20 pm, JACKIE AINSWORTH wrote: > > --- JACKIE AINSWORTH <jackieinbosham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 20:39:57 +0100 (BST) > > > From: JACKIE AINSWORTH > > > <jackieinbosham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Subject: Fwd: Microsoft respondents say they cannot > > > open LINUX attachments. What can we advise them > > > please? > > > > > > thanks. > > This is a problem on two fronts: > 1. That someone thinks that just because I use Linux the format of the > OpenOffice.org file, or any other file for that matter, is inherently > different. This seems to be a problem on both sides of this fence! So, lets > clear the air, OpenOffice.org 2.0 uses the OpenDocument Format, > OpenOffice.org 1.x uses a differently formatted XML document type. NEITHER > have specific file formats depending on the OS they use. (Unless they are > using a Beta of OOo 2 as I found that some older betas have problems opening > newer betas files). > > 2. That This is a Linux verses Windows battle, when its not at all. Its a MS > Word, or Office, versus OOo battle. For that there are some other > possiblities: > a. That the people you are sending the documents to download and install OOo > (the most prefereable way to handle this issue from my perspective.) > b. That you save your files in a more Word Processor nutrial format > (such as RTF, or even since you have OOo, pdf or Doc). > c. You fax your documents to them. > > -- > > See Ya' > Howard Coles Jr. > John 3:16! > *************** REPLY SEPARATOR *************** On 10/30/2005 8:11:14 AM Gerard Seibert Replied: Perhaps this might be of some use. http://www.openoffice.org/product2/writer.html Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." gerard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbors pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+
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