[Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 190, Issue 22 Open Office etc

[Alan Bee]

A note of caution interchanging documents.
For plain text sharing and editing documents is fine in a varietyof word processing apps. However when it becomes a table, and more so withembedded graphics then the file conversions between different word processorsis non-reciprocal.If you set up a document eg in MS Word, post it to anotherword processor. Add and remove a space to force a new save and send it backthen whilst it looks fine the two files are different.

It can be a time bomb.

We used to prepare documents, text and formulae in tables inMS Word which colleagues would edit in whatever system they had.  After a few rounds the table format wouldcrash rendering the document useless.
After some 'fun' we repeatably demonstrated the problem. Itwas not necessarily the very last format conversion that caused the problem,omitting an earlier change made 'this' change work as expected.  The faulty document looked OK but failed thenext, or next but one, change of platform.
73  Alan  G0HIQ