Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format

hormiga writes "Some scholarly journals are rejecting submissions made using new Office 2007 formats. Science and Nature are among publishers unwilling to deal with incompatibilities in the new formats, and recommend using older versions of Office or converting to older formats before submission. The new equation editor is cited as a specific problem. Rob Wier recommends that those publishers consider using ODF instead."

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Yet at my job

[Anonymous Coward]

We're still prying some professors away from Word Perfect 5.1.

Not a big deal

[nmapper]

Office 2007 user here. This is not a big deal, I have already set 2003 as my default "save as" to accommodate the slow change. I will also add that there are free conversion tools available. It's not as if we are etching the words into stone where they will remain that way forever lol...

Re:Word processors seem unsuited for this

[Kadin2048]

You can do all that in MS Word too. So why does your husband use LaTeX?

Yeah, and you could write your papers on vellum made from your own skin, using fragments of your own bone, with your blood as ink ... but some of us would rather avoid the pain.

Re:Word processors seem unsuited for this

[The One and Only]

That doesn't mean you should use lowercase rho for density (looks like p) or lowercase omega for angular velocity (looks like w) when something completely unambiguous like a little pictogram kittycat would work just as well.