Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: polygonum Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 22:17:02 +0100 Organization: me Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <20140409103210.89c6c878.rsw@therandymon.com> <090420142145528678%timstreater@greenbee.net> Reply-To: rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net hgWHXaCxQ40ZRSqT3vrPfQxMpsuik0HPyYP3GkUFO7DR0gHk4= Cancel-Lock: sha1:RVKgpfvDHoE1pe/SMHXUou0tzuk= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2333 On 09/04/2014 22:00, Alan Ralph wrote: > On 09/04/2014 22:45, Tim Streater wrote: >> In article , Alan Ralph >> wrote: >> >> >>> Best thing about the Mac version of Office, other than the ability to >>> export to PDF, as that it has an actual menu at the top of the screen, >>> thus saving me from losing my mind trying to find particular features >>> on the Ribbon. >> >> Any Mac app that can print can export to PDF. > > True, but the ability to export to PDF from Office is available on both > Mac and Windows version (2007 onwards). > The ability of Word 2013 to read a PDF and then, at least on simpler documents, quite a good job of converting the text into a Word document has been very useful to me. Too often, even copying a single sentence from a PDF in Adobe Reader results in messed up text with broken words/lines, odd extra characters, etc. -- Rod