On Jan 1, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:32 PM, paul stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> > wrote: > >> Seriously, I just don't want to fool around. I also have to use .docx files >> -- sometimes converting them. I'm sure there's a workaround, but why bother. >> Word is cheap, and it works well fro the most part. > > I don't want to fool around either. I want to work with an application > suite that does what I need quickly, efficiently, and without > problems. That's different from supplying deliverables for a customer > to use ... eg: I work with raw files from several different cameras, > my photo clients want TIFF or JPEG files. How I create the > deliverables is irrelevant to them. Same goes for making Word files. > > BTW: What value is there in ".docx" files vs .doc files? or even vs > .rtf files? I've never seen one. I'd be curious to know. Pages '09 > reads .DOCX files too, how they differ from .DOC files and what > advantage they pose seems invisible. > I don't know what advantage they offer -- and I don't care. But as a journalist and editor, I encounter them frequently, and I have to deal with them. Word makes that easy. Do I like Word? Hell no. My WP of choice way back when was Write Now, before that Quark Word Juggler. But I work with whatever is on my desk. Sometimes I have to turn something around in 30 minutes. No time for anti-microsoft bullshit. I'll leave the moral battles to those who have time for them. Paul > -- > 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.
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