Re: [LINK] [NZ] AA dumps Open Office, buys Microsoft for ‘compatibility’

[Eleanor Lister]

Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> <snip>
> The incompatibility problem is most likely that if AA people send OO
> documents/spreadsheets, in (ODS/ODT) formats, to MS users outside the
> organisation, the recipients can't read them.
>
> As an OO user, I assume the rest of the world is using MSWord and
> email MSWord
> format documents - though I am contemplating using PDF or maybe HTML.
> Unfortunately text only emails don't handle tables very well.

maybe i'm slow, but i don't see the problem.   as an OO user myself, i
use Thunderbird and have also used Evolution, both free-as-in-beer email
clients that handle HTML tables perfectly well.   of course you can send
it as text only, which will destroy the layout, but why would you?  even
Mailman won't scrag the HTML if you choose to send it as "Both" rather
than choose between Text and HTML in Thunderbird, and will read as HTML
in suitably equipped clients.

regards,
    EL   :-)

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Eleanor Ashley Lister
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