On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-26, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > These are shared documents. I can't just change what they are > > based on my own preferences. > > > > I need an app that WRITES .docx. If Office 2007 is the only > > one that does it, so be it. But a workaround or another way to > > skin this cat is not what I need here. > > In my experience, finding an app that writes .docx isn't going > to be good enough if the documents are shared. If you're > exporting or importing something just one time, you can get > usually away with it after some minor fixing afterwards. > > But if it's a shared document and needs to be edited multiple > times by multiple people, you just can't get away with using > two different apps -- hell, not even two different versions of > MSWord. If you go back and forth many times, the document will > steadily "deteriorate" with each transition from one app to > another. At least that's my experience. > > Sorry.
That's pretty much the conclusion I came to as well. Thanks for sharing though :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
