[luau] problems switching from MS to Linux

[yuser at hi.net]

On 9 Dec 2002 at 16:49, MonMotha wrote:

> Unless you need really oddball 
> formatting Rick Text Format (RTF) should work fine, and most likely the 
> prof won't even notice (other than the file being about 1/4 the size) 
> since windows defaults to having file extensions turned off!
> 

If you rename something.rtf to something.doc, Word will open it as it 
would any real .doc and not complain or ask any questions.  The only 
time you would notice is if you used Save As on the same document, 
the Save As dialog box will default back to type rtf when asking for 
a filename.  
I have been sending out my resume in that manner.  I used to send it 
in rtf but many recruiters/HR people replied back asking for it in 
Word format, not wanting to deal with that anymore,  I renamed it to 
resume.doc and send that file by default now.    If you are actually 
using MS Word and save a file in RTF format, make sure you close it 
completely and reopen it in Word again to make sure it still looks 
right.
Another thing I've noticed and I don't know if it's the fault of 
AbiWord, OO, MS Word or simply a technical limit with RTF in general 
but I've found a few times that a RTF that looks fine in one app does 
not mean it's going to look the same opened in something else.  In a 
general document that may not matter but I want to make sure 
something like my resume looks the way I expect it to before sending 
it out.   Conversion to PDF or PS fixes that but I havent met anyone 
that requests those.