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To those of us who use Open Office
« on: November 26, 2008, 04:30:52 PM »
As the first due date is only days away (yea or haha depending on whether or not we will be forced to laugh at some of you) I just thought I should take the time to remind my Open sourced brethren to convert their files to .doc or .rtf before sending them to the unenlightened. Otherwise they won't be able to read your stuff since MS Office is well a product of Microsoft...

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« Last Edit: November 26, 2008, 04:35:53 PM by wcarter4 »
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Re: To those of us who use Open Office
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2008, 01:37:10 AM »
That's a good point, thanks for reminding me. I will definitely put this in my Submissions Guide I'm working on, which will detail the exact process for the RE Submissions (nothing new in there, it will just be in a easier format to access).
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Re: To those of us who use Open Office
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2008, 09:51:02 PM »
Are we adverse to PDF submissions? Since readers aren't commenting and returning copies, merely posting in the forum. As for the guide, it'd be awesome to have up fairly quick here - do we need a discussion thread to work out the finer points? lol
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Re: To those of us who use Open Office
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2008, 10:27:37 PM »
Personally, I actually prefer word files, since I do tend to mark up peoples' manuscripts with grammar/line editing, rather than taking up any room in the actual discussion, and the Word comments feature is extraordinarily handy for that. (Though, it occurs to me, would you OpenOffice people be able to use them?)

I know some people are more comfortable sending their stuff out in .pdf format, though, and that's fine. As long as it's something we can all read there's no problem.

I think most of the information we need to know regarding formatting is in the Rules of Reading Excuses thread. Most of this is common sense, anyway. Any little kinks we run into we can just smooth out along the way.

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Re: To those of us who use Open Office
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2008, 10:49:37 PM »
Yeah, earlier in the Email List thread I mentioned that OpenOffice does have the same capability for comments, only they are called "Remarks" there.

I don't have any problem with PDFs, though. PDFs are nice. And if you need a PDF converter, OpenOffice can do that, too!

The guide I will make (which the first half disappeared, because of some bizarre Vista crash that happened when I left this laptop sitting for a few hours) is almost exclusively common sense stuff, but I think a guide for common sense is, well, common sense :P
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Re: To those of us who use Open Office
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2008, 07:14:22 PM »
Well Chaos, maybe you should convert completely and use Linux like me...
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Re: To those of us who use Open Office
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2008, 08:18:15 PM »
Linux! I haven't used Linux in ages.....I used to use it all the time for the games...I think my dad took it off our computers, though...Darn. It had some pretty sweet games too.
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Re: To those of us who use Open Office
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2008, 09:23:08 PM »
I love my Ubuntu =).
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Re: To those of us who use Open Office
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2008, 01:07:28 AM »
Me too. The kind people at Canonical Ltd. have made my world just a little bit brighter with Ubuntu.
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