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Office won't read Works files? (none / 0) (#1)
by ggast on Wed Sep 03, 2003 at 07:20:10 AM PDT

We've got Office 97 installed at work, and some of the users that teach on the side require their students to write essays  - standard for college homework. Now, college students have never had much money, so a lot of them can't afford even the academic versions of Office. They use Works, which is bundled with the computers they buy for school.

Unfortunately, Word, Excel, and so forth won't read the equivalent Works files, which means the student has to re-save their work into a format the instructor can import - like WordPerfect.

To the best of my knowledge, this has been going on since Office 6.1 for Win 3.1. Not having fixed this points to a design decision to force people  to pay for Office.

And Bill wonders why people perceive M$FT as greedy ...




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