Re: [LUG] Sending docs in MS format

[Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:32:14 +0000
Adam Latham wrote:

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> From: Robert Cook <robertsgcook@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:08:16 
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>      ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>      From: "Grant Sewell" <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>      Received: 17/10/2011 18:37:26
>      Subject: Re: [LUG] Sending docs in MS format
> 
> 
>      >On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:46:44 +0100
>      >Neil Winchurst wrote:
> 
>      >> On 17/10/11 17:42, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>      >> > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Neil Winchurst wrote:
>      >> > 
>      >> >> Looking for some help please.
>      >> >>
>      >> >> My daughter sometimes sends out job applications, 
>      >including CV's
>      >> >> etc. If she sends them as an attachment to an email 
>      >the recipients
>      >> >> complain that they can't read them, (the attached 
>      >files, not the
>      >> >> email).
>      >> >>
>      >> >> I have told her to save them, using OO Writer, in Word 
>      >format. She
>      >> >> claims that she does, but I am wanting to check this 
>      >out.
>      >> >>
>      >> >> So I am looking for some help please. I know that some 
>      >members have
>      >> >> Windows as well as Linux. Would anyone be willing to 
>      >receive a test
>      >> >> email with attachment from me and to let me know if 
>      >they can read
>      >> >> the attachment in Word please?
>      >> >>
>      >> >> I can't help her, I have not used Windows since 
>      >Windows 98 first
>      >> >> came out. My brother has Windows on his laptop but 
>      >he does not
>      >> >> have Word installed, he uses OO Writer and Firefox. 
>      >Yay, he has
>      >> >> learnt some good ways from me then.
>      >> >>
>      >> >> Any help gratefully received
>      >> > 
>      >> > Export as PDF and email the PDFs.
>      >> > 
>      >> > Gordon
>      >> > 
>      >> I have just tested that and it can be read in Adobe 
>      >Reader, so if the
>      >> company my daughter is writing to can read PDF files then 
>      >that will be
>      >> fine. I will show her how to do that.
>      >> 
>      >> Thanks
>      >> 
>      >> Neil
> 
>      >Unfortunately, some companies - in my experience usually 
>      >recruitment
>      >agencies - will only accept document types that they can 
>      >open in
>      >Microsoft Word so they can copy/paste the contents into 
>      >their own
>      >database tool.
> 
>      >Now, I know and you know that you can copy from most PDF 
>      >files, but
>      >that doesn't necessarily mean that they will accept a PDF 
>      >version.
> 
>      >Grant.
>> Hi As a watcher on the site I don't as yet use Linux but have an
>> older machine with MS Office so send me a file and I will try opening
>> it in Word and Open Office and tell you the differences cheers Rob
>> Cook
> 
> Is this one of the winmail.dat type problems do we think?
> 
> I had someone send me attachments from a windoze phone and all
> attachments ended up in a file called winmail.dat
> 
> Maybe it's a mail client thing... Just a thought.
> Message sent using BlackBerryÂ

Winmail.dat is usually a result of someone using Outlook and sending an
attachment to someone who is not using Outlook.

Grant.

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