Comment Re:Users are lazy (Score 1) 620
I can relate. My users also have cohorts at other organizations who save their documents in the default format, send it as attachments to my users, who then say they can't open the .docx or .xlsx formats.
I say, "Lemmie try," and open it with Spiffy Office 2007, save as "Office 97-2003 Format for Compatibility," and send the attachment to BOTH the user, the person who sent the attachment, and a fancy one-pager document informing everyone that Office 2007 hasn't even broken 50% market share yet.
That's why I've held off upgrading everyone to Office 2K7, though we have the licenses (eOpen Licenses... Good for 2007 and the previous version, in this case, 2003). Wait until we're all making .docx and .xlsx's (which appears to be a .zip file with the respective document in XML format, plus other resources like images and graphics and do-nothing files for extra file-size padding... like an Apple .pkg format...)
I say, "Lemmie try," and open it with Spiffy Office 2007, save as "Office 97-2003 Format for Compatibility," and send the attachment to BOTH the user, the person who sent the attachment, and a fancy one-pager document informing everyone that Office 2007 hasn't even broken 50% market share yet.
That's why I've held off upgrading everyone to Office 2K7, though we have the licenses (eOpen Licenses... Good for 2007 and the previous version, in this case, 2003). Wait until we're all making
