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0 pointsdragontamer12y ago0 comments

My 9-to-5 work computer is actually a Red Hat machine. So I think I know what I'm talking about. I release .rtf files when I can so that it can be friendly on most platforms.

As for document writing... I've mentions practical alternatives already. WHY are they sending you an OOXML file? Is it for collaboration? In which point, a Wiki is more than suitable as a replacement. Are they sending it for final consumption? A PDF file is good for documents where the layout must be faithfully preserved.

If you're documenting code and leaving the documentation in an SVN server, .doc documents are treated as binary and don't really get revision editing you'd like. Its better to document using Doxygen (which is much akin to HTML) than .doc in many cases.

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Aoyagi12y ago

Sure, let me just change the habits in hundreds of companies in the EU, including not very tech-savvy people. Brilliant idea. I would have moved to some other OS if it wasn't for the Office issue and the fact that huge number of games is under DirectX.

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