From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 7:36:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com (pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com [80.1.76.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DA8C37B402 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:36:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11655 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2002 15:36:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO matt.thebigchoice.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Feb 2002 15:36:14 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:36:14 +0000 From: Matt H To: "dmmcf@uiuc.edu" Cc: mwm-dated-1014449929.13fb95@mired.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility Message-Id: <20020218153614.34b05e8f.matt@proweb.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <863czylumy.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> References: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org> <863czylumy.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > .. and saving in an old format is (perceived as) too > much hassle. A few more such requests and _I_ will become the > problem, not Word. you could always send them a macro & toolbar to save their work as a different format one click save ( you could even be elaborate and make it save to a central repository with that one button or a toolbar with "email this document to colleagues" button and a bit of html/(vb|java)script to bring up a dialog box etc.etc.etc.etc. if your office has a central document.dot that everyone uses it can be part of that. Word & Office can be told to play nicely if you make a bit of effort, it even get's PHB's going if you incorporate pretty headers. You can replace the save icon & menuitem to save in a different default format. ) M To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message