[Corpora-List] workstation advice for corpus linguistics work

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, Alexander Yeh <asy at mitre.org> wrote:

[Intended to send this to the list but only sent it to Alexander. And
I've lost the References: header.]

> My experience has been, if you need to interact with people who use
> Word, etc., be careful of using OpenOffice on the other end.

My experience is if there are multiple authors of a Word document there
will be problems. My experience of using OpenOffice.org as a word
processor is that it is less likely to be the cause of such problems than
Word itself would be.

> I remember passing paper drafts back and forth with a co-author who used
> OpenOffice (and myself using Word). After several iterations, the paper
> draft became unopenable by Word, and we had to revert to an older
> version. I forgot how we got around the incompatibilities that were
> eventually encountered.

It would depend on how long ago that was. Indeed back when Word 2007 was
first released the only viable way of converting to/from earlier Word
versions was to use the BETA of OpenOffice.org 3.0. (The OOo download was
actually smaller than the official Microsoft Word 2007 plugin!) [It might
have been Word 2008, which ever one first switched to a supposed XML based
file format.]

Being facious the obvious solution in your situation would have been for
you to switch to OpenOffice.org. ;-)

Regards, Trevor

<>< Re: deemed!



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