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Skriven 2008-01-02 21:01:00 av ED VANCE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av CHARLES SCAGLIONE
Ärende: WP of choice
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CS> JE> Software? I have used Word Perfect since the DOS days. I find that even
CS> JE> the current versions of WP suits me better that MS Word. I use both
CS> JE> noways simply because Word is the predominate usage, but am more and
CS> JE> more migrating to Word because of its predominance.

CS> JE> In that vein, our local Word Perfect SIG has disbanded this last month
CS> JE> because of Word's predominance.

CS>It seems everything nowadays is required to be sent in Word format.  A frien
CS>of mine who is looking for another job found out he must submit resumes in W
CS>format.  Some on line applications are done up in PDF but it seems more of t
CS>now require Word.

CS>Word Perfect (Corel Office) is still alive, but only a small percentage of
CS>people use it.  Open Office is the free WP of choice for most folks.  But gu
CS>what?  Almost everyone I know who uses it has it defaulting to Word document
CS>creation. :)  Same with the free AbiWord WP.

Charles,

When I can't use EDIT.EXE or Notepad because I want to do something
fancy as in using Columns I use Open Office and I save in OO's format.

If I had to transport something that wasn't Text, I know I can let OO
use MS's .DOC extension so the 'Real World' could read my message,
so far I haven't had to.   ;-)

One thing I have noticed different between a .DOC and a .ODT file is I
can read the text in a .DOC file (after searching through a bunch of
gibberish MS adds to the file), but a .ODT file is all gibberish,
I suppose it is some kind of encryption of the file so OO can read it.

But as I learned here, I can always Save As the file to .DOC if I needed
to.


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