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From: Dan Espen
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:31
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:31
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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. -- Dan Espen
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