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

[Geoffrey]

aaron wrote:
> 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

Amen Aaron...

> 
> 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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Until later, Geoffrey

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