Sunday, September 18, 2005

Sharing files with diehard Office users...

Eventhough there is a very good free alternative to (what i fear is) the most stolen program in the world, some people simply refuse to switch. So for all of the good guys, who don't want to use stolen software; here is some advice on how to interact with those pour souls...
Not f2f; not by mail; but by shared MS Word® documents.. >sigh<

Though the best way possible would probabely be to convince these people to make the switch, and to dive into the fullness of free-software, as the article notes: Would you ask your boss to export to xhtml, docbook, pdf or RTF? Probabely not, and neither would I. (Although i have gladly convinced him of the better product OpenOffice.org is, he just keeps using MS Office® products - but he sends everyting in-mail, which is HTML)

Anyway, the article points a few pitfalls you might find interesting, just for conversion purposes.. And when people start to complain, about you not being able to use feature X, try to download the appropriate viewer from Microsoft™ directly, and see if their viewer supports it. I can tell you, it might just be an unsupported Word or Excel® feature !

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