Word .DOC viewer for Mozilla

[James Knott]

James McIntosh wrote:

> If you tell Word 2000 to create a RTF (Rich Text Format) file, then Word 6
> can open that, but Word 6 mangles the Word 2000 formatting badly.
> 
> Microsoft Word 2000 and Word 6 can't even communicate properly by using the
> RTF format files.
> 
> I don't think that this is a devious conspiracy, but, instead, an extreme
> combination of incompetence, laziness and indifference to needs of customers.

As I recall, there was one point where if an office upgraded(?) one user 
to the later version of Word, all had to upgrade, because the later 
version would only write in a format that the earlier versions couldn't 
read.


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