Re: [icon-users] Microsoft Office file validation
- From: Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:14:17 +0100
On 30 Apr 2012 Tim Hill <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <2989848852.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Young
> <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The last batch I sent as Word and pdf, and nobody complained! I forgot
>> about rtf, but how many Windows users know about that?
> They don't need to. If has .rtf and their system is set up appropriately,
> they should be able to double-click it like any Word file. If the type of
> user who has file extensions hidden, they won't probably notice any
> difference from a .doc
Accepted, but I can imagine some of them, particularly Word users,
seeing a strange file format and not knowing that it just needs a
double-click. There are sensible people out there who seem to lose
their brains when they sit in front of a computer.
> In fact, with LibreOffice .rtf and .doc look the same and it can even
> cope with an RTF file if it 'wrongly' has a .doc extn! Dunno about
> Wurd though, probably an excuse for the effing paperclip to get in the
> way.
At least you can turn the paperclip off, but they probably don't know
that anyway.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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