[Glastonbury] Re: Word function and Open Office (Rick Fitzsimmons)

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>
> 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.

Thanks for this, Rick. PDF is obviously the answer! I rarely myself send out 
Word or any other wordprocessor docs, but I have to send them out for others. 
I have pointed out the problem and it's up to them.

Thanks to all for comments.

Ros


>
> 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
> >
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