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[the head lemur]

All of the above and more!

I would suggest learning to use Rich Text Format for all documents.
http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm
This will allow you to read documents in just about every office application
regardless of vendor.

Running off97 on one machine and sending a document to a off2000 machine
converts it to off2000 format so now when you send it back you can't read
it.
gee thanks bill!

Creating documents in Microsoft products allows you to to do a number of
things that on the surface make them cool things, imbedding images, tables,
spreadsheets, etc. The cost of this geewhiz requires you be aware of
interoperability issues, such as those you have mentioned as well as sending
documents requiring revisions across the organization.

As well as microsoft's proprietary formats which are incompatable across
versions as well as their OS's. Despite the availability of viewers, which
allow you to view documents, but not revise them or easily convert them to,
for example RTF.

MS allows you to save as RTF, but unless you are very careful, MS formatting
gets imbedded in your document, renering them unreadable in other office
applications such as Word Perfect, Open Office, etc.

you just have to ask yourself, how much of the document is for information
and how much is for presentation?

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