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Article #1491Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)
From: Gareth Jones
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
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Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> wrote: >Dunstan_Vavasour <Dunstan_Vavasour@cegelecproj.co.uk> wrote: > >> What they do is keep changing the internal formats so that old >> versions quickly become unuseable. Although it is possible to keep >> documents in previous formats, somebody non technical running MS Word 98 >> will (by default) save their documents in a format which is unreadable >> by previous versions. > >There apparently being no way to alter the default. 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. Gareth
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: gareth@ibis.demon.co.uk (Gareth Jones) Subject: Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?) Date: 1998/10/05 Message-ID: <36180de3.4893859@news.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 397750081 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NNTP-Posting-Host: ibis.demon.co.uk:158.152.10.10 References: <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980927140803.10597B-100000@howard> <m3n27lf4ba.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980928140832.24247A-100000@howard> <6uqc2e$qck$1@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980929174327.11647A-100000@welpc040.domgen.com> <907103252snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <OtvFDIAmbgE2Ewio@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <ys4stod03w.fsf_-_@tulyar.sdd.cegelecproj.co.uk> <u0n5v6.ci4.ln@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 907545688 nnrp-11:3344 NO-IDENT ibis.demon.co.uk:158.152.10.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss