RE: Levels of detail -- are we beyond this?

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

I ask people to send Word documents to me as .doc files.  I didn't know
there was a docx converter, but I don't need it, since I have no interest in
Word 2007, yet.  If a document is worth reading, then it is worth saving in
a format that I can open without having to do extra work.

Also, don't AOL users have issues with AOL stripping files that have the
"wrong" type of extension?

Lauren


> From: voxwoman

> I just joined a budding Parent-Teacher group as the 
> secretary. The president
> sent out a list of all the officers in a Worrd 2007 (docx) 
> format. I knew
> immediately that there would be a nonzero amount of people on 
> the list with
> earlier versions of Word, so I sent out the link to the MS 
> "patch" that lets
> Office 2003 read Office 2007 files with instructions, and a 
> request that
> further documents be saved using the "compatible" format option.
> 
> Of course, I got an email back from our president, saying 
> that "the last
> paragraph was gibberish to her" (the one about save the files in doc
> format), and also that "some people can't open the file... 
> Can you help?"
> 
> I just should have saved the file in the older format and 
> re-sent without
> all the instructions (that assumed a basic level of knowledge 
> that few of
> these people had). The AOL email addresses should have been a clue...
> 
> -Wendy
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