[luau] Beware of Using Word 97

[hattenator at imapmail.org]

Some people actually like fonts and formatting.  You can't even right a
personal letter without rt. align.  I have a couple of professors in
the EE dept. who share your philosophy, and write all their documents
in some solaris text editor, then send it directly to the printer so
that it ends up in some ugly system font.  We all automatically think
its ugly, archaic, and worst of all, l and 1 are the same character
("el" and "one").  Sometimes it helps to put a table or a math equation
in a paper.  I certainly wouldn't submit a resume that I wrote in vi. 
But what MonMotha said is true, the usefulness of word processing just
about peaked at word 97.  Most of it you can get done just as rtf.  But
yeah, I imagine copying formating into a new file wouldn't take any
macros or metadata with it, so you could just cut and paste everything
into a new file to get around this bug, as far as I know.  Otherwise
save as an rtf file, and you'll keep all the formating.  Oh, and I was
looking at an old resume I made in word's resume wizard, and it full on
does not work in open office.  It thought it was 48 pages long.  Is
open office looking for bug reports?

-Eric Hattemer

On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 09:00:53 -1000, "Jim" <jim at jimroby.com> said:
> Important_document_from_great_thinker.doc  'save as'  Idea.txt ; type: 
> M$ Dos text file, w/CR
> ! Caution, saving as text, you will loose fonting, happy faces, and 
> other important widgits!
> Are you sure you can still express your idea and wish to continue?  Y/N
> :-)  
> 
> Ben Beeson wrote:
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> >Aloha,
> >
> >	A separate computer just changes the architecture of the problem, it doesn't fundamentally change the problem.  I believe this macro option could be used to facilitate an attack regardless of Internet connection because the method allows for information leakage.  This is because the macro virus "tool" essentially acts like a "wire" to the cleartext data of the victim's computer. ---snip---
> >
> >VR,
> >Ben 
> >
> >
> >
> >  
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