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From: JimP
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 01:53
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 01:53
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:31:32 -0400, Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> wrote: >Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes: > >> 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. > >A cynical person might think they make the versions slightly >incompatible to force their clients to upgrade to the latest version. One of my devout MS Office users complained about the menus being rearranged everytime there was an upgrade to it.
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