Re: [icon-users] Microsoft Office file validation
- From: Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:44:39 GMT
On 21 Mar 2012 Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <cd84077452.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 21 Mar 2012 Alan Adams <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> In message <5273a096adjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> John Harrison <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> .... you might be able to use a file converter program to create a .docx
>>>>> from your EW .doc.
>>>> Why would I want to do that? It's bad enough that Windows users churn out
>>>> .docx files, which aren't readable by some people.
>>> because according to the microsoft tech article, .docx files aren't
>>> being scanned for suspicious content, whereas .doc ones are.
>> Another oddity, but not particularly relevant to this post. I created
>> a doc file in EasiWriter, and have been told by a Windows user that
>> she could open it but wasn't allowed to print it. Is this likely? She
>> does confess that she's not a computer person!
> Unfortunately, it seems that recent versions of Word open legacy Word
> files in very old formats (and that includes the format EW uses for
> export) in a special read-only mode by default that does not allow
> editing. I think that is independent of the "validation" feature
> discussed here. Maybe that restricted mode does not allow printing
> either. Maybe time to consider some new export format (.docx being the
> most likely candidate), but this would be a huge job.
Yes, that makes sense, thanks. She said that she had to load, save and
reload it, and then it would print. On the plus side for EasiWriter,
the committee on which I sit were sent an OpenOffice file, which none
of them could open, so it was up to EasiWriter to save the day. If it
would be such a lot of work to get docx format saving done, would more
modern versions of doc be any easier? I would certainly buy such an
upgrade.
As an experiment, I created the latest doc files for the committee in
LibreOffice, so it will be interesting to see of anyone gets the
warning message.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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