One large file....

[Fred W. Schneider III]

When I was still with the state, we sent most documents over e-mail in RTF
because it saved space and didn't loose any formatting commands.  But when I
sent the table of contents in RTF, everything got screwed up.  When I sent it to
Ed the second time in Word97, it went through perfectly.  Of course, Ed was
unhappy because I put page numbers on it.  He then went to great lengths to
remove them all.  I should have locked it with a password to frustrate him.

John Swindler wrote:

> For what it's worth, we have had some success at PennDOT transmitting
> operating assistance contracts in WORD.rtf (rich text format) to Penna.
> transit agencies.  No reported problems at transit agency end - so far.
> (haven't tried with all "customers", yet)  However, sometimes there were
> problems if contract in WORD.doc format, such as if transit agency using
> Wordperfect at their end.
>
> Also for what it's worth, found that RTF format uses considerably less
> storage space then normal WORD.doc format.  Might be useful for us "old
> timers" who like to store stuff on disk rather then hard drive.
>
> John
>
> >From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
> >Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >Subject: Re: One large file....
> >Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:28:36 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Jim Holland wrote:
> >
> > >     My reference to MS-Word is to the suggestion by Mr. Skuchas for
> > > volunteer typists to type selected portions of the 300+ page book so the
> > > *whole thing* is then in digital form.  I suggested ASCII instead.
> >
> >And I agree; All the world is not Word; As you noted, even for the people
> >using word it's not always the same version, and Word likes to do
> >interchange in "rich text format"; As I recall the II in ASCII stands for
> >"information interchange"; It's a good idea unless you really need
> >formatting data.
> >
> >Of course it gets fun when you have tables.
> >
> >But now I'm getting off-topic.
> >
> >I'll be going on a trip for work at the end of May; After that if there's
> >a volunteer effort I'd be happy to do some typing.
> >
> >-D
> >
> >
>
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