So, if I create documents with MS Works, will people with Word have any trouble opening them? I'm wondering if I really need to pay for Office at home.
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Jesse - Apr 20, 2008 8:49:13 am PDT #5780 of 25501
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le nubian - Apr 20, 2008 8:55:36 am PDT #5781 of 25501
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Jesse,
Why don't you use Open Office?
Jesse - Apr 20, 2008 9:40:55 am PDT #5782 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, Works is on my computer now, so. Anyway, same question. Any trouble opening Open Office docs in MSOffice? Mostly I'm thinking about resumes and cover letters, so I guess I can just make them pdfs. Then I'm double safe that the formatting won't go kerlfuey along the way.
Consuela - Apr 20, 2008 9:45:38 am PDT #5783 of 25501
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Open Office allows you to save in a variety of formats, including MS Word. I like OO.
omnis_audis - Apr 20, 2008 9:56:36 am PDT #5784 of 25501
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I would suggest resumes & cover letters be sent as PDF's. Helps with font and margin issues. Also, nobody can edit your info.
Also, I second OpenOffice.
Typo Boy - Apr 20, 2008 9:59:05 am PDT #5785 of 25501
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OO is actually much more compatible with word than works. There are some minor incompatibilities with really complex formatting. (For example in a 110,000 word manuscript I put endnotes, at the of section rather than end of manuscript, then put bibliograpy in a following section so bibliography would follow endnotes rather than the other way around. And open office imported the document with endnotes at the end of manuscript. Still I doubt that works would do better. I wonder how easily works could even import a 110,000 word manuscript with tables, footnotes, endnotes, and graphs to begin with.) Also to tell the truth I find OO really slow. But I think it is going to be a lot more Word compatible than Works, even though Works is Microsoft.
Jesse - Apr 20, 2008 10:04:43 am PDT #5786 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Open Office allows you to save in a variety of formats, including MS Word.
Huh.
I would suggest resumes & cover letters be sent as PDF's. Helps with font and margin issues. Also, nobody can edit your info.
Yeah, I should be doing that anyway.
le nubian - Apr 20, 2008 10:38:31 am PDT #5787 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse,
there are free pdf creators if you don't have one now.
Jesse - Apr 20, 2008 10:42:17 am PDT #5788 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I use them all the time, thanks.
Typo Boy - Apr 20, 2008 10:59:44 am PDT #5789 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Of course OO has a built-in pdf creator - not that other free pdf creators are not fine, but kind of convenient.