Re: [tlug] CrossOver Office

[Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com>]

Matt,

--- Matt Gushee <mgushee@example.com> wrote:
> 
> 2) Can you use RTF? It's sort of open. At least, being text-based,
> you can decipher it the next time MS makes undocumented changes. And
I
>    did an experiment a couple of weeks ago where I saved a document
> in RTF, gave it a .doc file extension, and, ¤䤃¤ѤꬠI could
double-
>    click on it and Word stated up and loaded the doc without comment,
>    just as if it were a real .doc. Maybe you can do something similar
>    with Excel and a text-based file format pretending to be an .xls.
>    Opens up possibilities, doesn't it? Of course, if this practice
>    becomes widespread, MS will undoubtedly invent the
>    msOfficeIncorrectFileExtensionError (for your protection, of
> course!).

RTF is a good solution, in my experience, and MS uses it internally.
When you "save as" a Word 97 file for use by earlier versions of
Word, it actually saves it as RTF with a .doc extension. So this
is actually the "standard" solution :-)

Jake

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