On Nov 14, 2010, at 3:39 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 08:10:29PM -0000, Bob W wrote: >> >>> Odd. I use Word all day, every day. Save all manuscripts as docs and have >>> never had a problem. >> >> I think it can get its panties stuck up its crack if the document template >> gets messed up. I've been using it day in, day out for donkeys' years and in >> most situations it seems to be ok if you can keep things simple. At the >> place I'm working now, though, they have it set up so that users can't set >> up and use their own default template and I find that the file sizes inflate >> really quickly for some reason which I haven't discovered yet. > > That's usually because history versioning is turned on. Turn it off and > document sizes revert to something a lot more reasonable. > > That said, however: a .doc file (or a .pdf) is *not* the way to store plain > text, which is a concept that I struggle to get across to some people. I > don't > want a 2MB binary email attachment that I have to open in an external program, > and I don't want a .doc file attached as a "comment" in a project tracker.
Then you're different than all the publishers out there. I have never encountered a magazine or newspaper that didn't want .doc files. They're the industry standard. Yes, they may suck, but they're the industry standard. Paul > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
