Re: Choosing between Word Formats

Hi Juergen -

I'll leave rebuttal to others but I am compelled to make one general point:

This is a public newsgroup dedicated to assistance of those who *do* use MS
Word - for whatever reason. Use of this forum for *any* type of politically
based proclamations or promotion of personal agendas is wholly inappropriate
& unproductive.

Diatribe of this nature should be left to the blogs, chatrooms & other
forums intended for the purpose. I'm not challenging your "rights", but
questioning the propriety of how & where you exercise them. The first step
in having one's "rights" respected, however, emanates from one's respect for
the rights of others.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 7/19/08 4:41 PM, in article g5tjhp$ab8$01$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Juergen
Fenn" <jfenn@xxxxxxx> wrote:



John McGhie schrieb:

I strongly disagree. I strongly believe that all users of Word 2008 are
best advised to save in and work in the latest .docx format.

I further believe they are best to SEND that format to other people, always.
Everyone else can find a way to open the .docx format. There are no
exceptions.

This advise will only serve to promote the interest of Microsoft Corp.,
not that of the ordinary user.

We know that doc is *not* a data interchange format
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html>. Neither is
docx because it is not an agreed standard, neither. Vice versa, ODF is,
which Microsoft does not support for reasons beyond reason. :-(

Most people out there can open doc files now, so perhaps we could agree
that docx is best for working on your file, but before sending it out to
someone you should export it to RTF or doc. Be aware that every export
or import will come with some loss of formatting.

Regards,
Jürgen.

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