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Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?
superglaze writes "Looking through an article on the smartphone office suite Quickoffice, I noted a claim by a company executive that OpenOffice users usually save their documents in a Microsoft format, e.g. .doc. Hence the company has no plans to support .odf. I guess I can see the rationale for this — it helps if you're sending a document to an MS-using company — but what's this community's general experience of saving in .odf vs. .doc format?"
I use .odf when I'm feeling vindictive. Sometimes, a company will send me an email, whose entire body is otherwise stored in a .doc file, when it could have otherwise fit in just the regular body. I re-save the document as an .odf, make my changes or answer their questions, and then send it back to them.
S.
"Twice half-assed makes an ass whole." --Solomon K. Chang
Good thing I'm a physicist, the format for journals is LaTeX.
Once more into the breach dear friends, once more.
Good thing I'm a proctologist, the format for tests is a brown probe.
From personal experience, most people pay so little attention to email you send them that it wouldn't matter too much if you were able to send an email that magically turned their computer into a dancing ferret wearing top hat and tails, they wouldn't open it anyway.
Not unless the subject line was britney_spears_naked, anyway.
Good thing Im unemployed and don't have to deal with silly things like "communicating with humans"
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. -- George Carlin
I'm so glad that you told me that - it always drove me nuts. I think a TIFF pasted into word will be my next resume format for the recruiters!
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
"DOC if I need hell to freeze over."
.DOC format helps fight global warming?
So what you are saying is, saving files in
A new advertising angle for Microsoft's marketroids.
I am anarch of all I survey.