[OB] New issue exporting DOC, etc. from Omnibook 300/425/etc. to Office 2003 SP3

[Bruce M. Newman]

I agree with Andrew's comment about Microsoft.
Just a reminder - documents created in Word 2, on the Omnibook 300, can
be read by Word 6, and then "further up the line".
It does mean a "multi-step" process to get it to the latest version, and
really should be unnecessary, except for Microsoft's apparently limitless
greed.

Bruce Newman

On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:17:14 +0100 Andrew Lovell <andrew at lovell-info.se>
writes:
Hi

micro$oft has taken its monopolist tendencies a step further, by
attempting to force everybody to "upgrade" to their latest office
package. The main motivation is, of course, to sell more office packages.
This sort of underhand manipulation should be referred to the Monopolies
Commission.
I use Word 6 for everyday work, since I know the macro language, and do
not have the time and energy to learn Word Basic. Word 2002 is slow and
buggy. I got fed up with it crashing after about one day's use.

Yours

Andrew

At 19:42 08-01-05, you wrote:



M$ is patching Office 2003 (SP3) in a way that will by default disable
import of some very old file formats. As I recall, the OB300/425 include
a version of Word (2.X?) that won't be exportable to Office 2003 SP3
without some effort by the recipient. The capability to read these
formats isn't gone, but becomes disabled by default.

You may wish to refer to:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922849

http://blogs.msdn.com/david_leblanc/archive/2008/01/04/office-sp3-and-fil
e-formats.aspx 

D
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