Surviving in a DOC infested world

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:05 pm, Sam Couter wrote:
> Michael James <michael at james.st> wrote:
> > How do you experienced Linux desktoppers deal with Word documents?
>
<snip>
> Other options that I exercise usually involve statements along the lines
> of: "I can't open that file, can you send it in another format? *Any*
> other format will do!". I've partially educated the managers where I
> currently work. I probably won't have the same amount of influence where
> I'm working next week.

If you can convince the sender to repost as RTF, that is usually a big 
improvement, although the page layout can still end up a little different.

Rasjid.