[kwlug-disc] changes to .doc file from oowriter not tagged in word?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Try collaborating using Google Documents. It works well as long as the
number
of people involved is quite low.

Once you are done, export to .doc for the Windows guy/gal, and then .odf for

you and the other author. This is not a closed cloud, it is open.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, john at netdirect.ca wrote:
>
> > kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org wrote on 01/11/2010 02:30:24 PM:
> > > From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> > >
> > >   i just heard back and the other editor now admits that, yes, the
> > > changes are visible.  i still have no idea what the problem is,
> > > since i don't run word and can't reproduce what he's seeing.  but
> > > if he now suggests that things are good, i'll leave it at that.
> >
> > I suspect you are editing open source related articles? Why not
> > suggest they use an Open Source tool, like Open Office?
>
>   i wish.  the author is using OO, as am i, but all content has to go
> through the publisher's project editor, who uses word.  he's
> responsible for numerous ongoing projects -- some OSS, some not -- and
> it's extremely unlikely he's going to change tools at this point.
>
> rday
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