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From: D.M. Procida on 29 Jan 2010 07:30 Or is it limited to Word Processing, just as in iWork '08? Daniele
From: Martin S Taylor on 29 Jan 2010 07:42 D.M. Procida wrote > Or is it limited to Word Processing, just as in iWork '08? Just Word Processing, it appears. MST
From: Peter Ceresole on 29 Jan 2010 09:08 Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > D.M. Procida wrote > > Or is it limited to Word Processing, just as in iWork '08? > > Just Word Processing, it appears. One saving grace (of sorts) is that Pages '09 will correctly open .docx files. Somebody attached one of the buggers in an email to Anne this morning. On her MBP I've installed Open Office which also handles them, although it takes longer to fire up than Pages... When I politely suggested to the sender that attaching .docx files was a dodgy idea and that it would be better to send them out as .doc files, she replied that her computer system automatically converted all attachments to .docx. Hmmmm. I know that several years ago, when Anne ran the place, they used to have a network based on an AS400, but I also know that when her IT guy (an unreconstructed IBM man) was put up against the wall and shot, the system was root-and-branched by M$ weenies at HQ, so that sounds just feasible. -- Peter
From: Chris Ridd on 29 Jan 2010 09:15 On 2010-01-29 14:08:56 +0000, Peter Ceresole said: > Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > >> D.M. Procida wrote >>> Or is it limited to Word Processing, just as in iWork '08? >> >> Just Word Processing, it appears. > > One saving grace (of sorts) is that Pages '09 will correctly open .docx > files. Somebody attached one of the buggers in an email to Anne this > morning. On her MBP I've installed Open Office which also handles them, > although it takes longer to fire up than Pages... > > When I politely suggested to the sender that attaching .docx files was a > dodgy idea and that it would be better to send them out as .doc files, > she replied that her computer system automatically converted all > attachments to .docx. Hmmmm. Remember that Word can pretend to be an email client, so if she's in the habit of sending mail from inside Word it wouldn't *completely* shock me if it did auto convert stuff to docx. -- Chris
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 29 Jan 2010 09:18
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:08:56 +0000, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >When I politely suggested to the sender that attaching .docx files was a >dodgy idea and that it would be better to send them out as .doc files, >she replied that her computer system automatically converted all >attachments to .docx. It's a lie. What actually happens is that Office 2008 defaults to saving all files as .docx and .xlsx and .pptx, so the user has to actually think and either change the default settings (hidden in different places in each program and beset with "You don't want to do that, what if something.... happens?" warnings), or do a "save as" and pick the format each time. Cheers - Jaimie -- "What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledgehammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad." - Dave Barry |