atw: Re: MS Word 2010 and change-tracking
- From: Bill Parker <renew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:37:13 +0800
Lana,
You sum it up at the foot of your email
"Please avoid sending me Word, Powerpoint or Windows Media attachments."
I cannot avoid such incoming materials as a magazine editor, but I usually ask
for plain text only files and separate graphics. My normal routine is to save
everything as Text only and this is my crap removal quarantine method. The
layout person is happy, and we to the printer without hidden gremlins. That
much I learned years ago standing next to the printing machine with the
operator scanning pages for any errors. One such was found that had gone
through the entire process from input without being visible. Thousands of
dollars were about to be wasted because of a Word issue.
Bill
On 17/07/2011, at 7:51 PM, Lana Brindley wrote:
> On 17 July 2011 20:57, Geoffrey Marnell <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> Isn’t it time we started to expect, to demand, that the implied warrant of
>> merchantability that applies to all other retailable products—cars, couches,
>> coffee-makers and the like—applied to software as well?
>>
>>
>>
>> In a word: why do we put up with it?
>>
>
> Good question. I don't. Been wondering why others do for so long now,
> I've more or less given up trying to understand it.
>
> Lana
>
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