[Gllug] MS file format incompatibilities

[Ian]

I find this frequently happens, :-) so i gave up on thier proprietry
formats, the best standard by far is Postscript for text docs (apart
from ascii),

most ppl that get files from me get PDFs or RTF :-)

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 15:32, Tethys wrote:
> 
> I just had to share this one...
> 
> A colleague came to me in a panic, because he couldn't read an Excel
> file. Whenever he opened it up, Excel just barfed, both with Office
> 2K and Office XP. The wonderful irony is that it loaded perfectly in
> Gnumeric, and I was able to save it to another file in Excel 95 format
> so that Excel 2000 and Excel XP could read it.
> 
> So much for the claims that Linux will never succeed on the desktop
> because of file format incompatibilities :-) It seems there is a God
> after all. Hail Loki!
> 
> Tet
> 
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