nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqncxka2nmkqkndk4wkuf3tz3l39z9m8xax3aen3h8tvudwgjmf5mq4uv2v2 I'm with you 100% BUT: In discussion about change, I am constantly met with a specific...
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This one in particular:
Sometimes I need to exchange documents with people who can't read an ODF file
Never. MS Office can open ODF. But sending PowerPoint files to some process that requires a PowerPoint file, will display it with PowerPoint, and where any conversion errors will be blamed on me accounts for about 20% of my PowerPoint usage, higher for some of my colleagues.
Word is an interesting one because Word Online completely messes up formatting of Word, to the degree that short documents have different page counts on the two. For anything where presentation matters, I’ll exchange PDFs (and, if presentation really matters, not start in Word), so I don’t care there.
I don’t exchange non-trivial spreadsheets outside the company, but out finance people might.
This one in particular:
Sometimes I need to exchange documents with people who can't read an ODF file
Never. MS Office can open ODF. But sending PowerPoint files to some process that requires a PowerPoint file, will display it with PowerPoint, and where any conversion errors will be blamed on me accounts for about 20% of my PowerPoint usage, higher for some of my colleagues.
Word is an interesting one because Word Online completely messes up formatting of Word, to the degree that short documents have different page counts on the two. For anything where presentation matters, I’ll exchange PDFs (and, if presentation really matters, not start in Word), so I don’t care there.
I don’t exchange non-trivial spreadsheets outside the company, but out finance people might.