Re: Microsoft and obsolescence

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From: Bruce Fischer
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:00

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>> Goto Tools -> Options -> Save -> Save file as
>>
>> scroll down the list to whatever: e.g. Word 6.0/95 (*.doc)
>
>I suggest you look "default" up in a dictionary.  This does not change
>the default save format, but saves a single file with a different
>format.
>
>
>--
>David Kastrup                                     Phone: +49-234-700-5570
>Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de       Fax: +49-234-709-4209
>Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany

Actually it is Tools->Options-> Save that changes your default save
settings.  To just save one document as another file type, you would just go
File->Save As

I think Linux is wonderful, but to just dismiss Windows users and go off on
them like that without investigating does nothing to further the cause
except to make you look rude.

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From: "Bruce Fischer" <bfischer@inlink.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft and obsolescence
Date: 1998/10/07
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