Death to MS Word

Re:Death to MS Word by sp332 on Thursday April 12, 2012 @10:09AM (#3832336)

I know there are problems with it, but at least OOo and Google Docs etc. can usually interpret my documents OK. That's not exactly a glowing review but it's enough for me and most people to get work done.

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Re:Death to MS Word by streptomycin on Thursday April 12, 2012 @10:34AM (#3832447)

They can interpret the old .doc ones too, often better.

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Re:Death to MS Word by Splines on Thursday April 12, 2012 @11:35AM (#3832744)

I wish - I've had attachments that I've tried to open in Google Docs that appear mangled on my iPhone (which is not fun when you don't have a PC anywhere nearby).

It's unfortunate that the case where you wouldn't really need to attach a Word document and should just paste in the contents into email (just some plain text) is the case where Google Docs works just fine, and the case where you really need a Word document (complex table layout & floating pictures) is the case where Google Docs just doesn't work that well.

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Re:Death to MS Word by streptomycin on Thursday April 12, 2012 @01:04PM (#3833250)

I didn't say it's perfect. Neither .doc or .docx are read perfectly by any software, Word included.

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