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On 25/04/2018 00:35, J. Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:40:29 -0700, Peter Flass
> <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>>>>

Later versions of word can also save using older formats.

>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>

There is a free plug-in for older versions to read the newer formats

>>>> 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.
>>>
>>

Sometimes you run out of space...
.. or realize you did it wrong.

>> This is what I don't get, with a lot of software, not just M$. Someone
>> thinks they have a "better" idea, so they arbitrarily move things around.
>> It seems that they don't realize that heavy users of a piece of software do
>> things by reflex rather than looking at each menu item every time, so
>> moving stuff around really messes things up for your most loyal customers.
> 
> Prior to Office 2007 the user interface was highly configurable. While
> this was convenient for expert users it was a pain in the butt for
> support people because they had know way of knowing what the user was
> actually looking at.  Microsoft took most of that away with the
> "ribbon" interface but now it's slowly coming back.
> 
>   
> 

I like the ribbon. Most of the stuff is on a logical tab. It required a 
differenet way of thinking, but after a couple of weeks I was fine.

Much easier than switching from Fortran to Cobol to B

Dave