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.

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.

Jesse,

there are free pdf creators if you don't have one now.

Yeah, I use them all the time, thanks.

Of course OO has a built-in pdf creator - not that other free pdf creators are not fine, but kind of convenient.

as does Mac OS-X. A Print to PDF in the print dialog box, for those who didn't realize it. Quite handy.

zoho.com

or googledocs are the two I use. I like zoho better, because the how to is right up front. Both save things in all different ways.

Anyone else have a Flip Video camera & a Mac? Suddenly none of the files I've downloaded from it have audio! (Including old files which I *know* had audio because I (a) watched them with it and (b) there is audio on the cut-down Quicktime versions.)

There *is* audio if I watch the videos directly on the camera, but neither Quicktime or VLC recognizes any if I try to play them on the computer (either from the desktop or directly from the camera). Was there a Quicktime update recently that might have blown away some older audio codecs? These files are AVI generic MPEG-4s.

I have to admit I like Zoho Documents much better than google docs. For one thing the keyboard works more like off-line documents. The tab and enter key work more like Excel, and less like an html table. For another I like the greater variety of sharing options finer grained control.

Also, plain old more features.

Anyone else have a Flip Video camera & a Mac?

I do. You need to install an additional codec to get the sound. The installer is on the camera, or you can download it from here