15 Jul
2015
15 Jul
'15
12:30 p.m.
On 2015-07-15 08:07 AM, David Collier-Brown wrote:
Editing odt in MS Word is a Known Bad Thing (;-))
Though it did produce this spluttering piece of hilarity from an MS booster: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2008-macword/can-word... Yes, OOXML is an ISO standard, but ODF is too, and earlier, and doesn't have weird "even we don't know what this does" settings. For this reason, I keep a Win8.1 VM around (cheapo but legit licences can be had) and a $100 annual subscription to Office. Yeah, it's an MS tax, but if I need to read Track Changes documents exactly as they're supposed to be, it's worth it. Once a document has touched Word, I consider it irrevocably 'down converted', to use an old SGML term. cheers, Stewart