Microsoft office

2023-08-15 Thread Steve Beaver
One thing that absolutely scares the hell out of me is converting Office 2010 To any of the new Office Products, Has anyone converted? What Problems did you have? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acce

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2023-08-19 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 15.08.2023 o 17:47, Steve Beaver pisze: One thing that absolutely scares the hell out of me is converting Office 2010 To any of the new Office Products, Has anyone converted? What Problems did you have? (yes, it is off-topic, but I couldn't resist) Yes, I did. Conversion from 2

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2023-08-19 Thread Bob Bridges
Wait - the new Word doesn't read RTF?!! The other changes I'll cheerfully join you in deploring, but this is the only one that truly shocks me. Not that I am fluent in RTF. But I did write an ooRexx program once to convert a collection of plain-text error messages to a decent format using RTF

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2023-08-19 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
My memory is far from perfect, however I could swear it was RTF. Many years ago. Or maybe it was another non-DOC format? I just checked it now - RTF is supported (Word 2013). However uncle Google shows some vulnerabilities related to Word and RTF. BTW: my another "favorite" feature of MS is dis

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2023-08-19 Thread Robin Vowels
It's for this very reason that I still maintain at least one computer with Windows 3.1 and Word 1.1a. Everything works, including formulas. And it came with a great manual. As well as for preparing documents generally, I used Word 1.1a for automatically preparing indexes for books. Trying to conve

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2023-08-19 Thread Steve Thompson
I just tested RTF and ODT with Office 365's Word which shows "Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2307 Build 16.0.16626.20170) 64-bit " And it works for both. I used Libre Office to generate both. Steve Thompson On 8/19/2023 5:45 PM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: My memory is far from

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2023-08-19 Thread Steve Thompson
The caveat here is, I can no longer run Office 97 as it is not compatible with W11. I've found that all my older software (that worked up through W7) will not run under W11. Argggh!  I'm wondering if I can get it to work under V-BOX with an older W/7 Installation Steve Thompson On 8/19/

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2023-08-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
ERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Radoslaw Skorupka [0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2023 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Microsoft office W dniu 15.08.2023 o 17:47, Steve Beaver pisze: > One thing that absolutely scares the hell out of me

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2023-08-21 Thread Schmitt, Michael
2023 3:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Microsoft office Wait - the new Word doesn't read RTF?!! The other changes I'll cheerfully join you in deploring, but this is the only one that truly shocks me. Not that I am fluent in RTF. But I did write an ooRexx program once to c