Re: Microsoft and obsolescence

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From: Richard Steiner
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Lee Wei Shun <leews@pacific.net.sg>
spake unto us, saying:

>Richard Steiner wrote:
>> 
>> Here in comp.os.linux.misc, gareth@ibis.demon.co.uk (Gareth Jones)
>> spake unto us, saying:
>> 
>> >Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >I don't know about Word 98 (my company doesn't use macs), but with
>> >Word 97 it is a pretty simple operation to change the default save
>> >format.
>> 
>> How?  I've been looking for a way to do that for a couple of months.
>
>Goto Tools -> Options -> Save -> Save file as 
>scroll down the list to whatever: e.g. Word 6.0/95 (*.doc)
>Click on OK
>done

And this setting will stick with Word and will always save documents in
the format I specifed (let's say Word 6/95) with that copy of Word until
I change my mind and specify otherwise?

(I'm not at work at this point and can't check it out myself)

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From: rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Microsoft and obsolescence
Date: 1998/10/06
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