[nylug-talk] .oO or MS Office ? Neither!

[Sunny Dubey]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007 09:02, Henning Follmann wrote:
> If you ever opened a document already changed by three or more  
> different word installation you will see that this is almost  
> unreadable (miracle margins appear, pagination will change, lists are  
> messed up).

My experience has been that copy/pasting is the single biggest cause of 
formatting gone wrong.  Microsoft Office and OpenOffice seem hell bent on 
preserving the original formatting of the copy/pasted text regardless of the 
conventions and formatting of the new document.  Thus when people do paste 
their work onto the shared document, you have that smörgåsbord of bad 
formatting.

If anything, the office suite people need to rethink the pasting paradigm and 
possibly solve many headaches.

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Sunny Dubey

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