The weird twist on this is when you have Word's "quicksave" feature turned on. Then the .DOCs are generally a mess and impossible to translate.
On the rare occasion I use Word (hate it), I always configure it to always save .RTF files and never save .DOCs. On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:42 AM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Word files are essentially compiled RTF files. However there's at least some > kind of documentation on RTF. which makes writing filters much easier. > > On 11/14/2010 12:25 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >> >> From: David J Brooks >> >>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith...@bellsouth.net> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> > Ditto on Open Office. Haven't had the urge to use MS Office in years. >>>> > >>>> > Jeffery >>> >>> Right now, since my PC is not wanting to boot up, i am opening doc's >>> in either Pages or Test editor on my mac laptop. I can read them but >>> sometimes i get a lot of strange characters in the doc that i don't >>> want when i print them out. >>> I have done doc's in Appleworks and saved them as word do's but the >>> people i send them to cannot open them >> >> Any time I have a document on an Apple computer that I know is going to >> have to be read on a PC, I save as a "RICH TEXT FORMAT" (.rtf) file. So far, >> that's never failed me. >> >> You can't count on any version of M$ Word actually being readable by any >> other version, and especially can't count on any non-M$ Word text editor's >> version of word.doc files to be readable by another program ... >> double-especially across platforms. >> > > > -- > "His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed > moral bankruptcy." > -Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
