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

[Scott Castaline]

On 07/14/2009 04:38 PM, 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
>
> peace
> aaron
>
You're preachin' to the choir in my case. I avoid M$ totally like the 
plague. Unfortunately my wife's employer (State of Georgia formerly DHR, 
I have no idea what it is today since the reorganization. All I know for 
sure is that on the new organizational chart Dr. Hall who was the head 
of it all is off by himself, nobody under or over him.) is locked into 
M$ but strictly XP and M$Office2003, no upgradeing plans either due to 
budget restrictions. Choice to employees, take a 2nd day furlough per 
month or upgrade? Hmm tough decision. That's the unofficial story, also 
AT&T took over the network contract recently. Their main production 
server is usually down or overloaded, so they can never get their work 
done. Productivity at its highest and finest.

>
> 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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