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

[Dow_Hurst]

I installed MSOffice 2007 for the first time today in a virtual machine.  While looking thru the options for the package, I noticed that you can have the default save format set to MSOffice 2003 or other formats, but not ODF.  Anyway, I'm going to suggest that anyone who admins MSOffice 2007 to, on install, set the default save format to the good old 2003 .doc format.  That is usable by OpenOffice and would be the overall best workaround for those using WinXP and Office.  I think the ooxml fiasco is about the worst mess Microsoft could make of open formats, which par for their sense of ethics, or lack of.
Best wishes,
Dow


-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 14, 2009 4:03 PM
>To: ALE <ale at ale.org>
>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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