[Gllug] Dealing with "Word-Only" organisations

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:33:07PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:11:44PM +0000, Rich Walker wrote:
> > A certain "arms-length" government body runs various schemes where the
> > application forms are laden with Word macros.
> 
> Name and shame?

http://www.ico.gov.uk/

http://www.innovateuk.org/ -- Technology Strategy Board
We had some fun with them a while back -- they eventually agreed to accept a document
that their automatic ''suck the values out of a MS word'' document could not
have processed - it was very difficult to handle it in OoO (I don't have any
MS Windows machines - so no chance of using MS Word). We didn't get an award
so there is always the suspicion that they accepted it & just dropped it.

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