[ale] OT: I mean way OT like DocX OT

[aaron]

A little less OT perhaps is to suggest that the absolute best
course of action for helping guide poor, suffering windisease
victims to the cure for their sickness is to recommend that
they simply avoid DocX like the useless, viral format plague
that it is. :^P

peace
aaron


On 2009, Jul, 14, , at 4:20 PM, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> There is a compatibility patch for 2003 to be able to read 2007
> generated files.  Don't have any details and the only reason I know  
> is I
> saw the Change Control our MS admins wrote for doing an SMS push to
> Windows laptops and desktops.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Scott Castaline
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 4:03 PM
> To: ALE
> Subject: [ale] OT: I mean way OT like DocX OT
>
> Had my first encounter with M$ DocX file. My son got the latest and
> greatest(?), (Ok the not so great, okay okay,the latest and worstest)
> M$Office. He sent us a document that he had created in it. My wife was
> unable to open it on her State office issued laptop that has M$ WinXP
> w/M$Office 2003. She kept getting garbage. My OpenOffice.org3.1.0  
> opened
>
> it but the text was in several different fonts and there were several
> blank pages inserted. I fixed the fonts and then deleted the blank and
> all is well now. Told him to resave the doc in an older format, before
> sending it to anyone else.
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