Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 20:59:55 -0500 From: Alan Browne Subject: Re: Office alternatives Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps References: <161020161924034199%nospam@nospam.invalid> <171020162124256995%star@sky.net> <181020162012445731%star@sky.net> X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.giganews.com Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:59:54 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 31 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-FaW4j6OXvRgIxV2d+RV6cnoPlF0ixkLIiwZBlX21Rr8tYzUpfsgqHEwa9r+15Qa91u030Vs8zy0uH7/!A98Ffb+0Eeb7Q1Wvdw14Bojy5k5WQSv9IoH/y4h+UcPVmEpD4AiXVXP6dq6KIVd+TLlfsUt9Zvg= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3058 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:37179 On 2016-10-21 09:21, MalcolmO wrote: > On 2016/10/18 8:12 PM, Davoud wrote: >> OMG, that's hilarious. Have a lot of experience trying to get a book >> published do you? > > Haven't written a book yet but everything I've ever written has been > published. But now that I'm retired, I don't have to be concerned with > Word or its users. Precisely. The rest of us who do collaborations, often across departments, with clients, suppliers and many others, having everyone on the same applications software is not a lark - it is a must for everyone's benefit and sanity. So the de facto standard wins out. > As an aside, the move to Mac meant that I could open .docx files. They > wouldn't open when I was using Windows. At that time, I told people, > "Look, docx won't open on my PC; send PDF instead. Anytime I get a docx > I just throw it away." And they'd say, "But it opens with Word!" And I'd > say, "Well, I have never bought Word and never will. It's expensive and > not worth a cent. So people who don't have Word will not be able to open > your docx files. No one is ever gonna say they can't open PDF." Which is a passive aggressive uncooperative attitude that may work in your tiny world that would see anyone in a real world collaboration passed by, marginalized and ignored. If he was some wild genius type (I'm not accusing you of that) then someone would be assigned as the interface - further driving up costs. -- She hummed to herself because she was an unrivaled botcher of lyrics. -Nick (Gone Girl), Gillian Flynn.