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Article #66684Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
From: pgil... Peter Gillett
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:00
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pe...@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: > Most people buy Microsoft applications because they're the only ones > that can reliably read and write Microsoft file formats. That isnt always true! I have recently moved some databases from M$ Worxs v3 for DOS to M$ Works v3 for Windows and although the program imports the file, all the positioning info for the fields in the card layout is lost. Many of the fields, field names and lables appearing on top of each other. The only suggestion I hav received from one of the M$ news groups is to move them as CSV files, which is worse as all field names and lables are then lost. It would also appear that Excel cannot import Works Spredsheet files, and Access cannot import Works Database files! This seems to show a complete contempt for existing customers. -- Peter Gillett : pgil...@mail.zynet.co.uk : 01548 821686 South Hams Sheepmilk, Higher Stert Farm, Totnes, Devon. TQ9 7NB
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From: pgil...@mail.zynet.co.uk (Peter Gillett) Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft! Date: 1997/01/22 Message-ID: <n50838AC2@mail.zynet.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 211614717 references: <32DB2690.3533@geocities.com> <01bc026e$bd4f9a20$8f201e26@speedbird> <5c0sac$c1o@web.nmti.com> organization: South Hams Sheepmilk newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.linux.network,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.security.misc,rec.aviation.simulators,comp.sys.palmtops,alt.2600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit