Re: reading MS word files

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:40:55PM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote:
However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking
that its the only format around, what works? I need not just the text
but collumns, tables, images, the works.

Who sends you doc files? Ask for
ogg, mpeg2 or xxx files.

People who think operating a computer is using MS office. Period.

They get a glazed look when I ask for plain text even if the .doc files
they send are only straight text. Since I've never used a windows
computer (started with OS/2 and went to Debian directly), I don't know
what extra work there is for them, but I understand that the windows
recipients have to do extra work if its not a .doc file. The sender
tells me its more work to send .doc to everyone else and something else
to me.



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