MS office & Open office compatibility issue

[William Muriithi]

Hi
>
> This happens to me at school all the time, especially since my faculty
>  emphasizes group work. One person will use Word, another Open Office,
>  and another TextEdit or something else. The best option in that case is
>  rtf as it is basic enough and has had enough people figuring it out over
>  the years on multiple platforms that formatting isn't too much of a problem.
>
>  Get them to send rtf and send rtf back and that should eliminate most of
>  the glitches and maintain a consistent degree of brokenness on both ends.

 Cool, thank you. I think I can convince them on this, especially
since you can convert back to *.doc once you are done with
collaboration.

Regards,
William
>
>
>  Jamon
>
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