Peter wrote:
I'm telling it as they tell me.
People who are aware of the incompatibility between MS Office
document versions are more likely to try something else in the hope
the document will open somehow. And with OO, it does, even if the
formatting is ****d.
The document I receive is only one part. The bigger part is the
document I need to send back to the client. Will it look the same on
the client's machine?
Ask this in a different way: If you send an advanced (with advanced
features) document made with Office 2000 and they receive it with Office
97, will it look the same ? (answer: like [EMAIL PROTECTED] it will, even if it does
not freeze their system or crash Office by throwing a VBA exception).
So adding one more program to the mix adds that many more things that
can be incompatible.
Next you will tell me that
No, I will not tell you that, and I don't play with other people's straw
men :)
you have to stay compatible with your clients
and so you need to maintain all necessary Office versions active on your
system. That is one [EMAIL PROTECTED] of an answer for someone who could use OO and
simply click 'save/send as Office 97 document' or straight PDF, since
you care so much about how it looks.
In the more common case the client wants a file that can be read by
MS-Word. They may want to mark it up. If it's a go-between (like an
agency) they may want their editor to go over it. PDF is often not an
option.
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Thanks,
Uri
http://translation.israel.net
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