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On Wednesday 11 July 2007 14:40, Martijn wrote: > > It's weird that it does show properly in OOo as it was developed > especially for cross-platform information exchange. Many security > companies actually recommend saving Word documents -and, perhaps, OOo > documents too- as RTF as it doesn't use macros, which is exactly what > viruses make use of. > I've used it in OOo before without problems. However unfortunately the RTF standard document is not very good so each implementation does things slightly differently, not helped by the fact that Microsoft tend to change it every time a new version of Word is released... Hopefully ODF will fix these cross-platform document interchange issues. Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html