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"Please don't send me Word documents"
by Jordan Running Jul 19th 2006 at 1:20PM
Word documents can sometimes seem like an inevitability of modern business, but at least one person things that doesn't have to be so. Research scientist Tristan Miller has put together a page called Please don't send me Microsoft Word documents that explains to would-be attachment-senders why Word is a bad format to send to your colleagues and what alternatives there are. Though I'm sure some readers won't agree with everything he says, and some businesspeople won't buy a word of it (or just not care), if you hate getting Word files it's a handy link to give to their senders.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Debra said 3:15PM on 7-19-2006
I like this article, but PDF and html as alternatives? No thanks.
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Blue Balloon said 4:34PM on 7-19-2006
most lawyer have been send Word doc :/
My boss got new iMac and seem not able to open their word doc and I asked them to export doc into pdf where she open as well.
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derrick said 8:50AM on 7-20-2006
I like sending PDF documents a lot especially if I'm sending out some financial report that I've worked awhile on. At least I know no one can go in and fudge the numbers.
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Keith said 7:23PM on 7-25-2006
Not sure I understand Debra's objections -- PDF is an excellent replacement for Word, and nowadays it's easy to generate one for free. HTML is a little trickier, since it's hard to keep the formatting as nice.
Now if I could get people to stop sending me 10 MB attachments.
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