Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 24.174.160.188]
on July 19, 2008 08:08 PM
"But in the end it was easier to teach the candidate to use the option in Office 2007 to save his work in the old .doc format than to try to get the eight or 10 people with whom he routinely shares files to update their copies of Office"
We are starting to get a trickle of these at work. Here is my standard reply.
"You have sent an attachment that is not compatible with our versions of Office Suites. It is using an interim format that MS will be replacing, and so for compatibility, it is highly recommended that you follow the instructions located here to ensure that 100% of your customers and clients can read and use your documents in a completely automated fashion, and prevents your from using an interim standard being replaced my Microsoft
The above is usually replied to with a hearty thank you, this was a pain for us, sometimes with a reply such as "we don't care" which enforces me not caring and usually silently but documents start coming in the binary format.
For any IT group, if you haven't set your compatibility mode for all users, good luck with all documents between now and the next iteration of Office XML.
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I have a standard attachment.
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 24.174.160.188] on July 19, 2008 08:08 PMWe are starting to get a trickle of these at work. Here is my standard reply.
"You have sent an attachment that is not compatible with our versions of Office Suites. It is using an interim format that MS will be replacing, and so for compatibility, it is highly recommended that you follow the instructions located here to ensure that 100% of your customers and clients can read and use your documents in a completely automated fashion, and prevents your from using an interim standard being replaced my Microsoft
http://www.haverford.edu/acc/docs/software/msoffice/office2007defaultformat.html
Note that the above is only for word, you must repeat a similar procedure for spreadsheets
and presentations as shown.
http://sbits.blogspot.com/2007/12/change-office-2007-default-file-save.html"
The above is usually replied to with a hearty thank you, this was a pain for us, sometimes with a reply such as "we don't care" which enforces me not caring and usually silently but documents start coming in the binary format.
For any IT group, if you haven't set your compatibility mode for all users, good luck with all documents between now and the next iteration of Office XML.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178949(TechNet.10).aspx
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