Re: Real World News.."And so it goes"

[Dan Strychalski <dski@ms17.hinet.net>]

Erick Andrews <eandrews@star.net> wrote --

> One of the biggest and confusing aspects about Word, perhaps I should say
> a "cute trick", is when someone new to Word does bring in a file other than
> the "current *.doc" type, makes changes, saves the changes, then exits Word.
> A message window now pops up that warns you that the current one is not
> a Word document:  Do you want to save it??  <yes>  <no>  <cancel>.

Yeah, it also says you'll lose formatting by saving in a format other
than Word's. First time I saw this, I had opened a WordPerfect file
that contained user-inserted soft line breaks (unsupported and ignored
by Word) and used a 9.7-point font (Word scales fonts in steps of 0.5
point).

It is an outrage.

Dan Strychalski