Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Ori Idan]

Another point to notice is that there is no such format as MS word format.
Each version has a different format and sometimes one can not open the
documents that was sent to him in this format.
I have seen many cases where OpenOffice opened files that people who had a
version of MS-word could not open.

-- 
Ori Idan


2012/2/5 Boaz Rymland <boaz.rymland at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> I'm about to meet my daughter's school principal on the subject of the
> formats of documents the school spreads around routinely, like the weekly
> schedule. In short - they are using .DOC MS Word format and I don't like it
> as I cannot cleanly open those documents on my computer (which runs Ubuntu).
>
> Although I'm quite old in the Linux world and probably heard over the
> years most of them - still I prefer having a refreshment of all the
> arguments in favor of moving to more open or at least affordable (e.g. PDF)
> document formats.
>
> Any pointers/text will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Boaz.
>
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