office apps
Chip Camden
sterling at camdensoftware.com
Tue Jun 8 15:16:11 UTC 2010
On Jun 07 2010 22:12, Chris Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Chip Camden wrote:
>
> >[...] I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that
> >I send them specs in Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using
> >some behemoth office tool, if only for converting from a different
> >format. I'm currently doing that work on a Windows workstation, but I'd
> >like to limit my involvement with Windows to only developing for it when
> >I must.
>
> I have clients like that too. What I've done - only once or twice, and
> really just to be a dick - is to do my writeup in ASCII text, then `mv foo
> foo.doc`. There, it's in word format! And Word really can open the file,
> so...
>
That's great -- I'll have to remember that one.
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