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From: Peter Flass
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:24
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:24
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JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After my employer left the caost after Katrina, I apllied for a number > of jobs. Those that wanted a Word document of my resume, all wanted a > different year version of Word to be used. > > I used Open Office and submitted to each of them in the Word format > they wanted. > Wow, that's interesting. What I can't understand, unless it's just poor design and coding, is why they can't make the versions more compatible. If you get a document in a new format and our version doesn't understand, why the heck can't it just do something with it before it gives you the message. In the simplest case, just render it as unformatted text. Upward-compatibility of a kind is not all that difficult to achieve. -- Pete
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