[Glastonbury] Word function and Open Office

[Rick Fitzsimmons]

This is why I always transfer completed documents as PDFs. Sending out 
documents in /any/ word-processor format is (in my opinion) an 
invitation for the recipient to edit it. I'm always amazed at the way 
documents are distributed in doc format. Apart from anything else, it's 
so inefficient (partly due to all the meta-data).

Incidentally, in my experience OOo keeps the change data when importing 
from Word. I assume the same applies when exporting too, but I've not 
checked this.

Rick.



info at wccl.co.uk wrote:
> 
> I was interested to read the following in today's silicon newsletter:
> 
> Blunder in Word shows government terror doubts
> When will they learn?
> http://newsletters.silicon.cneteu.net/t/82284/579699/71380/0/
> 
> Quite apart from the interesting info opposition MPs must have seen, if they 
> knew how, in the emailed Word doc from Charles Clarke, we Linux users mostly 
> - I imagine - can't help encountering Word and I (using Open Office most of 
> the time) almost always have to convert to Word when emailing docs. Reading 
> this silicon report, I presume (without I admit having had the time so far to 
> look for myself but maybe I'd miss it anyway) Open Office has exactly the 
> same functions as Word re track changes so that if for example I emailed one 
> of you an O.Office doc, you could look at it and discover what changes I had 
> made and what original wording I had put in it?
> 
> But also, if I write a doc in O.Office and then convert it to Word and email 
> it to you, can you open it in Word - or O.Office - and still read my track 
> changes? Or do those disappear when the conversion is made to Word from 
> O.Office?
> 
> I'm told one can easily avoid this trail of track changes by "accepting the 
> changes" in Word, but that even then an "expert" can still find the track 
> changes. So that leads to another question: Suppose I write a doc - in Word 
> or O.Office - then cut and paste just the actual text to a new doc - do I 
> transfer all the track changes as well? Or do they remain in the original doc 
> only?
> 
> It seems to me I ought to know what I'm sending out!!
> 
> As a WordPerfect fan who uses O.Office in Linux because I can't at present get 
> WordPerfect for Linux - come to think, must check if anything's progressed 
> there - tho' O.Office has its own many charms, I'm not very experienced in 
> Word. I don't use it unless I have to. Unless I remember wrongly, WordPerfect 
> has the same track changes function. I must email myself a much-changed WordP 
> doc and see what I can find!
> 
> I know, I'm sure I could check this out in due course. But I haven't time 
> right now and I am wondering if anyone has the answers right away? 
> 
> Thanks for any help. Meantime, what fun if the Govt are sending out to their 
> enemies docs that say one thing but in the background say something else 
> entirely! 
> 
> Ros
> 
> Wells Computer Consultants Ltd 
> 
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