The 02.10.14 at 22:05, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
Some company documents do not survive the round-trip from Word to OpenOffice Writer to Word again, with formatting and tables intact. I'm sure it's just a failing on my part, but until I figure it out, or fix OpenOffice (I'm not a programmer), I'll have to live with the shame of my incompetence.
Actually, I understand M$ makes Word and the rest of that suite a moving target. Ie, the problem is the file formats are artificially obscured, not published, and changed, so as to make format interchange between program as difficult as they can, if not impossible.
That was written by Steven T. Hatton. Correct attribution is to me the most important part of netiquette.
Now that, I readily admit as an error (snipped too early, before beginning reply). I apologize to Carl, and to any who were misled.
Apologies accepted :-) Actually, I believe it wouldn't happen if our software preceded the quote mark with the initials of the original poster, as is customary on some other networks. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson