[Coco] Re: [Long] [OT] That Big Shadow Over Your Shoulder, Part 1,

[Theodore Evans (Alex)]

On Feb 29, 2004, at 4:27 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:

> At 08:20 PM 2/29/04 -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>> I think that the later versions of WordPerfect can produce documents 
>> in
>> at least one Microsoft Word format.  Open Office is also supposed to 
>> be
>> able to do so.
>
> I think my question is whether these other programs can be used for
> collaboration, as businesses do with MSWord.
>
> When I get an MSWord document as a co-author or editor, it contains the
> owner and document information, the list of previous editors by 
> initials,
> attributed corrections, editorial notes, and marginal notes ('post it'
> comments). It has various password protections to keep the original 
> editing
> visible as it makes the route through contributors. And probably other
> features I've forgotten.
>
> It's more than merely reading and writing the format, it's maintaining 
> all
> the contents, present and previous, that's just as important. Lose 
> those
> and my head is on the platter of my editor, just before I'm fired. :)

OpenOffice and StarOffice support this with native formats as well as 
Word.

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Theodore (Alex) Evans | 2B v ~2B = ?