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On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2009-01-26, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > These are shared documents. I can't just change what they are |
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> > based on my own preferences. |
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> > I need an app that WRITES .docx. If Office 2007 is the only |
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> > one that does it, so be it. But a workaround or another way to |
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> > skin this cat is not what I need here. |
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> In my experience, finding an app that writes .docx isn't going |
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> to be good enough if the documents are shared. If you're |
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> exporting or importing something just one time, you can get |
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> usually away with it after some minor fixing afterwards. |
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> But if it's a shared document and needs to be edited multiple |
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> times by multiple people, you just can't get away with using |
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> two different apps -- hell, not even two different versions of |
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> MSWord. If you go back and forth many times, the document will |
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> steadily "deteriorate" with each transition from one app to |
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> another. At least that's my experience. |
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> Sorry. |
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That's pretty much the conclusion I came to as well. Thanks for sharing |
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though :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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