[PLUG] OO.o With No Scroll Bars? -- SOLVED

[Ali Corbin]

On 3/8/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Ali Corbin wrote:
>
> > Yes, abiword says that it can save a word doc.  But if you look at the
> > file after you save it, you see:
> >
> >> file test.doc
> > test.doc: Rich Text Format data, version 1, ANSI
> >
> > as opposed to:
> >
> >> file word.doc
> > word.doc: Microsoft Office Document
> >
> > The rtf will open in MS word, and is good enough for some cases (for
> > example, HR departments), but I suspect that it doesn't have all of the
> > features of word.
>
> Ali,
>
>    I don't get heavily-embossed Word docs from clients or agencies, but
> sometimes I need to send them an editable file they can instantly open in
> Word. So, I guess I will stick with the OO.o bloat a while longer.
>
Which they can do to a 'doc' file saved by abiword.  The file has a
.doc extension and MS Word opens it up, just as if it were a real word
doc.  The average joe won't realize that it's not a word doc.

Ali