On 6/28/07, Jesse Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have some links to some good material on why organizations > should not require submissions in MS Word format? > > Thanks, > > Jesse > Not sure what format you propose to submit it in instead, but the first format that came to mind for me was PDF. Formatting is preserved, the reader's free if they don't already have it, readers are available for multiple platforms, and, (making a wild assumption that it's OpenOffice you are actually using in place of Word to do your document creation), it's something OO can save to natively, so that makes it easy for you. So, I found this: http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/pdfs/managing_archiving.pdf (in PDF format, no less). It's from Adobe, so of course they have a vested interest in saying good things about PDF, but it makes the points I would have made: document integrity, preservation of formatting, multi-vendor support of the spec. It's short but to the point. I can see the profs reasons for setting one standard (so he doesn't need to have 15 different programs to see all his students papers), but I totally agree that Word is absolutely the wrong standard to pick. PDF, all the way.
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